--- joachim jarreau wrote:
> Id like to know if there exists a way to create
> a local list of the existing variables in a dataset,
> In other words id need to do something like :
> collapse (sum) value, by( "all variables except this-that").
you can get a list of variables using the -ds- command, see:
-help ds- and Martin Weiss (2008) Stata tip 66: ds—A hidden
gem. The Stata Journal, 8(3):448-448.
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=dm0040 .
You can remove a set of variables from that list using extended
macro functions, see -help macrolists- and the example below:
*-------- begin example -------------
local except "make"
sysuse auto, clear
ds
local varlist `r(varlist)'
local newlist: list varlist - except
di "`newlist'"
*----------- end example ------------
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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