b. water wrote:
stata 8.2,
would appreciate advice on how the following data management
transformation can be undertaken:
at the moment data look like this:
Epid Att Ned Yag Pallad
Gord Molb Nur Zn
Yes 5 twice Off Present
2 3 PRN no
No 4 no On Present
0 1 no yes
. . . . .
. . . .
. . . . .
. . . .
Yes 5 twice Off Present
2 3 PRN no
No 4 no On Present
0 1 no yes
i want to change it so it looks like this:
Epid Att Ned Yag Pallad Gord Molb Nur Zn
Yes 5 twice Off Present 2 3 PRN no
No 4 no On Present 0 1 no yes
.
.
.
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Yes 5 twice Off Present 2 3 PRN no
No 4 no On Present 0 1 no yes
thank you for any advice/help.
bw
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Obviously, this is not a Stata dataset which must be rectangular.
Assuming that this is ASCII data with two lines per observation,
you can use -infile-. But without knowing more, any specific
advice is not possible.
Svend
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