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Re: st: Creating a matrix from an excel table
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[email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
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Re: st: Creating a matrix from an excel table
Date
Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:45:37 +0100
On Fri, Apr 01 2011, Diego Canales wrote:
> Does anyone know how could I import my data as a matrix into Stata, or
> Mata I guess? I'm aware that I am constrained with the matrix size (I
> have Stata SE, so 11,000 matrix maximum), so I'm planning on deleting
> observations that are above a certain threshold and come up with a
> smaller matrix.
Here's a starting point:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
|input group latj lonj
|1 56 298.5816873
|1 55 466.3318352
|1 2 537.7437382
|1 3 736.950696
|1 58 761.8313998
|1 141 820.9843873
|1 57 832.6894503
|1 13 893.208735
|1 135 896.4010734
|end
|
|sort group
|
|save /tmp/other, replace
|
|rename latj lati
|rename lonj loni
|
|joinby group using /tmp/other
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
Brendan
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