I meant to say that if I have the following data,
cusip date ticker prc
If I do gen newvar, it would automatically do it for all the
datapoints (hence gen command has a built-in loop).
However, I want to know how can I do the same by using an actual
foreach loop that loops over cusip or data variable.
Thanks
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/foreach.html
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> What do you mean by " gen variable with built-in loop"?
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> HTH
> Martin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kushan Thakkar
> Sent: Montag, 9. November 2009 23:34
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: using postfile in a loop
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> Thanks everyone for calling me out on the no loop part.
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> On a different note, how can I loop on a single variable ? For
> example, let's say if I wanted to loop over the date variable and then
> over the cusip variable, how would I go about doing this? I understand
> that there is no need to explicitly create loop since I can use gen
> variable with built-in loop. However, I want to do this so that I can
> understand how loops and postfile work with each other.
>
> Thanks.
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> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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>> --- On Mon, 9/11/09, Kushan Thakkar wrote:
>>> I have a dataset the contains the following data:
>>>
>>> cusip ticker date prc ....(few more variables).... RminusI
>>>
>>> I need to isolate data points for which RminusI is less
>>> than its first decile and then post these data points in a
>>> different file.
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>> This is not a case for -postfile- or a loop. In the example
>> below nlsw88.dta is your master data, grade is your id variable,
>> and wage is your RminusI variable.
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>> *---------- begin example --------------
>> sysuse nlsw88, clear
>> bys grade: egen lb = pctile(wage), p(10)
>> keep if wage < lb
>> *------------ end example --------------
>> ( For more on how to use examples I sent to statalist see:
>> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
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>> Hope this helps,
>> Maarten
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