st: Re: Re: na.omit synonym

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

...
Woops, my suggestion will only work after you recode -1 to missing.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:12 AM
Subject: st: Re: na.omit synonym



> ...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.
*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/