Ah! Yes! It's always something simple.
Cheers David!
Rodrigo
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of David Kantor
Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2007 11:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: reshape error
At 07:12 PM 3/12/2007, Rodrigo Martell wrote:
>I have a dataset that looks like this:
>SETTLEMENTDATE qld_p nsw_p
>1/01/2004 4:30 14.90673 14.67833
>1/01/2004 5:00 14.74838 14.58328
>1/01/2004 5:30 14.54922 14.6783
>1/01/2004 6:00 14.16048 14.59497
>1/01/2004 6:30 13.8505 14.69998
>1/01/2004 7:00 13.09797 14.6587
>1/01/2004 7:30 14.8116 15.92572
>
>
>I've reshape things like this before using something like
>
>-reshape long _p, i(SETTLEMENTDATE) j(State) string-
>
>However, this command now gives me an error (r(111)), "no xij
>variables found". Can anyone see what's going wrong?
>(settlementdate is stored as a string by the way)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rodrigo
>
>Rodrigo Martell
>
> <http://www.frontier-economics.com>
>Frontier Economics Pty. Ltd.
>395 Collins Street
>Melbourne VIC 3000
>Australia
>www.frontier-economics.com
Looks to me that the variables you are attempting to reshape are
qld_p nsw_p, which share a common suffix.
-reshape- expects the variables to share a common prefix.
Try renaming them to p_qld and p_nsw; then,...
-reshape long p_, i(SETTLEMENTDATE) j(State) string-
HTH
--David
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