You need to sort out your first data set before you can reshape it...
2009/10/29 "Elisabeth Müller" <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> I have two datasets, which I would like to merge. However, the one is in long and the other in wide format.
>
> e.g.:
>
> id
>
> first set second set
>
> B0103 B0103
> B0104A B0104
> B0104B
> B0105A B0105
> B0105B
> B0105C
>
> I tried the reshape command to change the first set from long to wide but it doesn't work. Does anybody have a suggestion?
>
Could you post the code that you've been trying to use as per the
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