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st: Renaming variables
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BAIJER Jan 212040 <[email protected]>
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st: Renaming variables
Date
Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:59:06 +0000
Hello Stata,
I have a tab delimited text file that I would like to work on using Stata. This file has a header that I'd like to eliminate; line 9 of the file contains variable names, lines 10 and further contain the observations.
I'd like to "transform" my datafile from within Stata, by dropping the first 8 lines, and renaming the variables correctly. There must be a smart way of doing this ?! I could not find out how to get rid of the generic variable names, and instruct Stata to use the information on a given (first) line of the file for variable names.
Can you help me out ?!
Thank you very much,
Jan
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Jan Baijer, Ph.D.
Director of Flow Cytometry
CEA-DSV-iRCM
[email protected]
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