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Re: st: Reshape like problem


From   Pancho Villa <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Reshape like problem
Date   Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:28:33 -0400

Thank you so much!

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pancho Villa <[email protected]> :
>
> clear
> input id value
> 1 15
> 2 14
> 3 22
> 4 31
> 5 12
> 6 10
> end
> g id_1=(id-mod(id-1,3)-1)/3+1
> g id_2=mod(id-1,3)+1
> l
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Pancho Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I have my data in this kind of form:
>>
>> id      value
>> 1       15
>> 2       14
>> 3       22
>> 4       31
>> 5       12
>> 6       10
>>
>> id_1    id_2    value
>> 1       1       15
>> 1       2       14
>> 1       3       22
>> 2       1       31
>> 2       2       12
>> 2       3       10
>>
>> In other words, my data is stacked and would like to un-stack it.  (I
>> can do reshape, I think.  But this seems like a necessary first step.)
>>
>> Now, in my example, my id goes from 1 to 6, while I'd like id_1 to go
>> from 1 to 2 and id_2 from 1 to 3.   In reality, my id goes from 1 to
>> 5084280, while I want id_1 to go from 1 to 2088 and id_2 from 1 to
>> 2435.  (If you check, 2088 x 2435 = 5084280.)
>>
>> I'll really appreciate if you can share code addressing a very similar
>> problem so I can just paste it in my do file and tweak a few things.
>>
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