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Re: st: reshaping + info from label
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: reshaping + info from label
Date
Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:10:01 +0100
You don't show what you tried with -reshape-. If these were string
variables, then you can go
input date str1 variable1ab str1 variable2cd
. 1 q w
. 2 e r
end
reshape long variable, i(date) string
l
+-----------------------+
| date _j variable |
|-----------------------|
1. | 1 1ab q |
2. | 1 2cd w |
3. | 2 1ab e |
4. | 2 2cd r |
+-----------------------+
I don't follow what you are trying to explain about labels. Value
labels? Variable labels? Nor do I follow what the connection with -ds-
or -findname- (SJ) is here.
Nick
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to reshape data that has the following form---
>
> date variable1ab variable2cd
> 1 q w
> 2 e r
>
>
>
> Assume the variable variable1ab is labelled A B, while variable2cd is
> labelled C D (actually strings, though)
>
>
> Finally I would like the data to be of the following form
>
> date var1 var2 value
> 1 A B q
> 2 A B e
> 1 C D w
> 2 C D r
>
>
> I feel the solution might lie in the commands -ds- or Nick Cox's
> -findname- together with -reshape- but I am just unable to see how.
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