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Roy, thanks for the suggestion. However, I get a syntax error when I tried the procedure you suggested. I thought I understood your logic, but I am not able to produce a renaming without an error.
-Jennifer
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for how I could rename my variables to
> reflect the values in an observation or a variable? Or any other
> suggested shortcuts, short of making this long local macro?
>
> Jennifer
sysuse auto, clear
drop make headroom gear_ratio
foreach var of varlist _all {
ren `var' `var'`=`var'[1]'
}
Roy
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