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RE: st: Reshape question
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"Mike Kim" <[email protected]>
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Subject
RE: st: Reshape question
Date
Sat, 7 May 2011 07:22:57 -0500
Keith Dear,
Thank you, it works! Additional question is... my data contain around 70
different variable names with the same pattern (so, the total variables are
70*5 = 3500). Is there any way I can reshape without listing all 70 variable
names?
Mike.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Dear
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Reshape question
reshape long @_gg @_hh @_ii , i(id) j(country) string
On 7 May 2011 14:00, Mike Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear listers,
>
> My data looks like the following and I want to reshape it from wide to
long.
> There are many more similar variables with the same pattern. Is there any
> easy way to reshape?
>
> id a_gg b_gg c_gg d_gg e_gg a_hh b_hh c_hh d_hh e_hh a_ii b_ii c_ii d_ii
> e_ii ..
> 1 1 5 3 1 2 4 1 1
> 5 1 3 1 1 4 1
> 2 4 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
> 1 1 1 1 5 1 1
> 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 5 1
> 1 3 1 1 1 3 1
> ..
>
> The data format I want is:
>
> id country gg hh ii ..
> 1 a
> 1 b
> 1 c
> 1 d
> 1 e
> 2 a
> 2 b
> 2 c
> 2 d
> 2 e
> 3 a
> 3 b
> 3 c
> 3 d
> 3 e
> ......
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Mike.
>
>
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ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
Australian National University
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