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Re: st: renaming variables from first observation
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Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
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Re: st: renaming variables from first observation
Date
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:25:46 +0200
I caught the mistake, thanks to -set trace on-. 'Code' is the second
word of my observation of the first variable and of course a variable
name has to be single worded. But my question on possibility of using
Nick's -renvars- remains.
Best regards
Abhimanyu
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning statalist
> I would like to rename my variables var1-var14 to the corresponding
> values from the first observation.
> I followed the post on
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-07/msg00009.html and
> modified it for my purpose.
>
> but I got this error
>
> . forvalues k = 1/14 {
> 2. local newname = var`k'[1]
> 3. ren var`k' `newname'
> 4. }
>
> Code not allowed
>
> Also is it posible to store the values of an observation in a macro?
> Perhaps I could then use Nick Cox's -renvars-?
>
> Cheers
> Abhimanyu
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