Re: st: Deleted a ROW

[Martin Weiss <martin.weiss@uni-tuebingen.de>]

Well, there is no undo button in Stata, but you can -preserve- your  
data before you carry out anything dangerous. -restore- then takes you  
back to the data you had when you issued -preserve-. Or -save-  
beforehand under a new name...

HTH
Martin


Quoting Shehzad Ali <sia500@york.ac.uk>:


> Following on from this, I wonder if there is a drop and recover option
> is Stata. What I mean is if you dropped observation/s or variable/s, is
> there a way to recover them?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shehzad
>
> On Aug 7 2008, Hind Sbihi wrote:
>
> > Hi Daniel
> >
> > In the absence of more information, I will assume that each row has  
> >  a unique identifier. Say your identifier is number_id and you want  
> >  to remove the row for number_id #49. You can use the command drop   
> > drop if number_id==49
> >
> > HTH
> > Hind
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> >
> > > Date: Thu Aug 07 10:33:41 PDT 2008
> > > From: "Daniel Sepulveda-Adams" <sepul003@umn.edu>
> > > Subject: st: Deleted a ROW
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a question about "Deleted a ROW", I don't know how to do that.
> > > Thanks you for your time
> > >
> > > Regards -- DSA
> > >
> > >
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