Richard's line of code does what you ask.
It works on just the variable that you are focusing on.
I can see some other problems, some trivial, some
not so, that you will face.
The -foreach- loop over variables needs the keyword -of-,
not -in-. This detail also was prominent in a thread
a couple of days ago.
Despite a loop over variables and another loop over
10 replicates, you are saving to just 10 files. Thus
only the last set of 10 files will be left in memory.
Except that I don't think that will happen either.
As the initialisation -local i = 1-
takes place outside the outer loop, something else
will happen. The first time around the inner loop,
i will end as 10. The second time around the
inner loop i will end as 11. The inner loop will
then not be entered again.
The initialisation should probably be dumped and
the inner loop replaced by -forval i = 1/10 ...
But then it seems that you intend to produce 910
files, even though that's not what the code does.
If that's true, you're setting yourself up with
a pretty awkward management task.
I recommend that you get something very very simple
working before you try to complicate it.
Nick
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David McClintick
> Actually, I just realized that your suggestion isn't going to
> work. As I
> am generating a sample based on each variable, and I have different
> amounts of missing values for each variable, your command
> would drop all
> observations that had any missing value for any one of the
> variables. I
> only want to drop observations for that particular sample when missing
> in that particular variable.
> Thanks, not sure why I didn't think of that.
Richard Williams
> At 07:48 PM 10/29/2006, David McClintick wrote:
> >I have the written the following code to run a sample command on each
> >one of my variables:
> >
> >local i=1
> >foreach x in var1-var91 {
> > while `i' <=10 {
> > use c:\ado\personal\easy.dta
> > sample 5, count
> > save mewsample`i', replace
> > local i= `i' +1
> >}
> >}
> >
> >However, I have a problem because there are missing values in each
> list,
> >and my random samples often return a missing value as one of their 5
> >terms. What's the best way to exclude missing values from the sample
> >generation?
>
> Before the sample command, could you have something like
>
> keep if !missing(`x')
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