Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RE: st: AW: create a dataset or vector of variable names
From
"Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To
<[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: AW: create a dataset or vector of variable names
Date
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:19:16 +0100
<>
I probably misunderstand your intentions completely, but if all you want is
a new, empty dataset with the same variables as some other dataset, you can
simply gut the latter and -save- it under a new name:
*******
sysuse nlsw88, clear
drop in 1/l
save mynewfile, replace emptyok
use mynewfile, clear
*******
HTH
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sheena Sullivan
Sent: Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010 18:41
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: AW: create a dataset or vector of variable names
Thanks very much for that. To sum, I did the following
use mydata, clear
ssc inst descsave
descsave, sa(varname) keep(name)
use varname
li
forval i = 1/109 {
local names `names' `=name[`i']'
}
matrix colnames R = `names'
clear
svmat mymat, names( col )
which gave me a dataset from my matrix with the appropriate variables names.
Thanks again,
Sheena
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/