Re: st: generating new variables: any shortcut?

["Rodrigo A. Alfaro" <raalfaroa@gmail.com>]

There is a user-ado called -takelogs- that
adds the prefix "l" to the new variables.

findit takelogs
help takelogs

Rodrigo.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sebastian F. B�chte" <sfbuechte@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: st: generating new variables: any shortcut?



> You could try -foreach-:
>
> foreach elem of varlist var1-var15 {
>      gen log_`elem' = log(`elem')
> }
>
> hth
> Sebastian
>
> On 7/10/07, Vladimir V. Dashkeyev <dashkeyev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I want to create new variables by taking logarithms of old variables
> > and I want to keep old names:
> >
> > -- gen log_var1 = log(var1) --
> >
> > If I need to take logs of all the variables in the dataset or at least
> > of the variables that are named consequently (e.g. var1,
> > var2...var15), is there a way to generate new variables by a single
> > command?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Vladimir.
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