RE: st: RE: curious behavior of drop

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

Thank you Scott for your explication and Martin for introducing _set 
varabbrev off_.
I had leapt to the assumption that my problem was with _drop_.
With some embarassment, I can now report that I had renamed the 
"missing" age variable to dxage...
My apologies.



> What is your story for Michael`s observation then?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Merryman
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 10:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: st: RE: curious behavior of drop
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> I don't think -set varabbrev- would matter because age is not an
> abbreviation; it uniquely identifies the variable.
>
> For example:
>
> . clear
> . set obs 1
> obs was 0, now 1
> . gen age =1
> . gen agecat = 1
> . set varabbrev on
> . drop age
> . ds
> agecat
>
> . clear
> . set obs 1
> obs was 0, now 1
> . gen age =1
> . gen agecat = 1
> . set varabbrev off
> . drop age
> . ds
> agecat
>
> Scott
>
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Martin Weiss
> <martin.weiss@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> >  -set varabbrev off- to prevent it...
> >
> >  Martin Weiss
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