On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Stata Chris<[email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning,
Good afternoon ;-)
> I need to do similar calculations, generating a new variable, on
> different subsamples of my dataset,
> and was therefore planning to use the preserve command each time
> before cutting the dataset,
> and then, after having generated the respective variable, restore to
> return to the full dataset.
>
> The problem with this is that once I restore the data, my new variable
> is gone as well.
> I first thought I could store this in a local macro,
> but when I wanted to summarize all macros at the end of the dofile, it
> turned out Stata wanted to use the lost variable, having apparently
> remembered only that the macro consisted of said variable, but not the
> distribution of the variable itself.
You don't provide any examples of the code you are using so its
difficult to advise, but I suspect you may well get some mileage out
of -bysort-
> So my question is: How can I after each of these rounds generally
> return to the full dataset,
> but keep the one new variable?
If you're problem isn't conducive to -bysort- then -save-ing each
subset of data with the new variable, -append-ing them to each other
and then -merge-ing them with the original would likely get you there.
Neil
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