Re: st: How can I creat a new dataset with just one variable (80 obs.) from scratch ?

[Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu>]

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clear
set obs 80
gen age = _n
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
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On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Anna Reimondos wrote:

> Hello,
> I would like to create a completely new dataset from scratch with just
> one variable. I would like the variable (age) to have 80 observations,
> increasing sequentially.
>
> Example:
>
> age
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> ..
> 80
>
>
> I have tried a few different things, eg
>
> clear
> gen age=_n
>
> or ...
>
> clear
> gen age=1
> replace age=_n
> keep if age<=80
>
>
> but nothing happens....
>
> Does anyone know how to do this. I have tried searching for
> information but it is one of those things which is hard to search for.
> Obviously I open the data editor and input the values by manually but
> I would prefer to have something reproducible.
>
> Thanks!
> Anna
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