Re: st: How to genrate a variable containing some values of other variable

[Alberto R Osella <arosella@irccsdebellis.it>]

Fantastic Oliver! It works!
Thank you.
Best

Alberto R. Osella, MD, PhD
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Il 05/05/2011 14:55, Oliver Jones ha scritto:
> Hi,
> maybe this works for you
>
> gen int newvar = 0
> local row = 0
> forval i = 1(5)305 {
>     local row = `row' + 1
>     replace newvar = `i' in `row'
> }
>
> Best
> Oliver
>
> Am 05.05.2011 14:50, schrieb Alberto R Osella:
> > Dear Statalisters,
> >
> > I'm workin with Stata 11.2 on Windows and have the following problem:
> >
> > I has a variable which takes on values from 1 to 301 and I want to 
> > generate a new variable
> > which should take on the following values 1,6,11,...,305 (1(5)305).
> >
> > So if anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful.
> > Cheers
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