Re: st: Transforming data - horizontal to vertical

[Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:02 PM, lreine ycenna <lreine.ycenna@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> This is the error message I've been getting:' invalid name
> r(198);
>
>  Also the number '2' appeared after I entered this command ' foreach
> var of local countries { '
>
>
>  ds year, not
> . local countries 'r(varlist)'
>
> . foreach var of local countries {
>  2. rename 'var' country'var'
>  3. }
> ' invalid name
> r(198);

You should be using ` and not ' to delimit macros.

` is on the button to the left of q on a traditional US/UK QWERTY keyboard
' is two keys to the right of the 'L' on a traditional US/UK QWERTY keyboard.

You'd probably benefit from reading Chapter 18 of the manuals on programming.

Neil



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