--- Molly Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a loop inside a loop so that I can merge a file into another
> file by several different variables (I have data on cities, and I
> need to merge in the data on cities by each city crossed in each
> observation).
> Right now I have the following code:
> forvalues p=1/55 {
> use C:\filename.dta
> foreach var in capital spending investment transfers ...
> ren `var' `var'_`p'
> save C:\filename.dta
> ..and then I open up the master data and merge in the renamed
> variables.
> }
> }
>
> The problem is that stata will only rename the first variable in my
> variable list--here capital, it ignores the other variables.
I don't see why he picks up on only capital, I do see that this loop
will only work the first time round the "p loop" since you are
changeing the variable names in file filename, so the second time round
the p loop the variables will be called capital_1, spending_1, etc. So
you within the loop you should save the file under a different name
(generally speaking you should never save changes to you master
dataset, but save do-files that carry out the desired changes. So if
you made mistake(and believe me everybody does) they are easy to fix.)
hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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