Hi,
alternatively this is an option too:
**---------------------------------------------------------------------
local keeplist "v1 v2 v3"
quietly ds_util
local dsv `r(varlist)'
drop `:list dsv - keeplist'
**---------------------------------------------------------------------
or here is one more:
**---------------------------------------------------------------------
capture gen v1=.
capture gen v2=.
capture gen v3=.
keep v1 v2 v3
**---------------------------------------------------------------------
Best regards,
Sergiy Radyakin
On 9/10/07, Erik Bihagen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Sebastian, it works!
>
> Erik
>
> Sebastian F. B�chte wrote:
> > Erik
> >
> > in deed I guess you are right. So my suggestions would now involve a
> > little programming:
> >
> > *----- example start
> > //local keeplist holds the list of variables which you would like to
> > keep if they
> > //exist in the dataset
> > local keeplist v1 v2 v3
> >
> > local kl_modif
> > foreach el of local keeplist {
> > capture confirm variable `el'
> > if _rc==0 {
> > local kl_modif `kl_modif' `el'
> > }
> > }
> > capture keep `kl_modif'
> >
> > *-----example end
> >
> > 2007/9/10, Erik Bihagen <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> but i tried that. The problem is that the result of -capture keep v1 v2
> >> v3 - is that the command is disregarded. As an example; I want to keep
> >> v1, and v2, but not v4 for data sets where v1, v2 and v4 are present
> >> (and run the same command for all other data sets I have, see below)
> >>
> >> /Erik
> >>
> >> Sebastian F. B�chte wrote:
> >>
> >>> Erik
> >>>
> >>> try -capture keep v1 v2 v3-.
> >>>
> >>> regards
> >>> Sebastian
> >>>
> >>> 2007/9/10, Erik Bihagen <[email protected]>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Statalisters,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a way to let the keep command do the following?
> >>>> I want to keep, let's say, three variables v1 v2 v3 before saving data,
> >>>> but all these three variables do not exist in all data sets for which I
> >>>> want to run the command (I want to do this with a loop using many data
> >>>> sets and I use global to define the variables).
> >>>>
> >>>> I could drop variables instead using "capture drop v4" etc, but that
> >>>> would become a very long do file.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers
> >>>>
> >>>> Erik
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Erik Bihagen
> >>>> Swedish Institute for Social Research
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