Re: st: Re: Re: na.omit synonym

["bunny , lautloscrew.com" <bunny@lautloscrew.com>]

hmm,

it looks like  it would work though :) . sure there are many ways,  
probably some drop if with and/or and all variables would also work...
i just thought there's a syntax that drops all missings directly. in  
a way this is what neil suggested....

thx everybody!!

matthias
Am 20.06.2007 um 15:38 schrieb Michael Blasnik:


> ...
> 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
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>
> > ...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.
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