st: Re: na.omit synonym

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

...I have no knowledge of R, but it sounds like this is one (of many) ways to 
get what you want:

gen byte touse=1
markout touse var1 var2 var3

will create a variable named touse which contains 1s for cases with no missing 
values in var1, var2, or var3, and zeros otherwise.  You can then use -if touse- 
after most commands or just -drop if touse- to actually drop them from the 
dataset.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bunny , lautloscrew.com" <bunny@lautloscrew.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:41 AM
Subject: st: na.omit synonym



> HI everybody,
>
> i have several non-response in my dataset that are coded -1 .
> i�d like to drop any observation (row) where one or more columns  contains 
> a -1.
>
> In R there's na.omit to the job. is there a similiar syntax in stata ?
>
> thx in advance
>
> matthias
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