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Re: st: replacement
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: replacement
Date
Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:19:03 +0100
-label define- followed by -encode-.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Gannaway Jack WWG HWWD
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a table where each observation has a letter as the value for a
> number of the variables, e.g.
>
> Ob v1 v2 v3
> 1 a a b
> 2 c d a
> 3 b c b
>
>
> For each variable, there is a unique set of numbers which correspond to
> the letters:
>
> Var a b c d
> V1 0 3 5 9
> V2 0 1 2 5
> V3 0 1 5 10
>
> Can anyone explain a neat way of replacing all the letters with their
> relevent numeric score? I know I could just do a messy and long
> replace, but the score table is liable to change in the future and I
> want a system where I can just point to a different input, rather than
> manually re-write the replace command.
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