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Re: st: AW: Reshaping a Dataset


From   [email protected]
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: AW: Reshaping a Dataset
Date   Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:06:00 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

Yes, that is correct.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
>Sent: Jul 23, 2010 8:55 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: st: AW: Reshaping a Dataset
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>The first table does not wrap well, so it is hard to tell what the -varname-s really are. It looks as if the columns contain both strings, to hold the site and county names, and numeric data, correct?
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>HTH
>Martin
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>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von [email protected]
>Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Juli 2010 14:47
>An: Statalist
>Betreff: st: Reshaping a Dataset
>
>I've been working on this for a while now, but obviously I do not yet understand what -reshape- needs to do its work.
>
>Here is some data from the dataset:
>
>site	  Crouse   Garinger   Arrowood   County Line   Rockwell   Enochville   Monroe
>county	  Lincoln  Burton     Burton     Burton        Chance     Chance       Union
>date							
>20050701	    0.082	           0.083                    0.08	
>20050709            0.076      0.076	
>20050720            0.084                               0.079			
>20050721                       0.08        0.085			
>20050722						0.078	
>20050724						0.08	
>20050725  0.101     0.081      0.095       0.078        0.087       0.079
>
>I want to reshape the dataset to look like:
>
>date      county     site           conc
>20050701  Lincoln    Crouse           .
>20050701  Burton     Garinger       0.082
>20050701  Burton     Arrowood         .
>20050701  Burton     County Line    0.083
>20050701  Chance     Rockwell         .
>20050701  Chance     Enochville      0.08
>20050701  Union      Monroe           .
>etc.  etc.
>
>Can anyone assist me with this? Thanks much.
>
>reg
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