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st: RE: how to transform variables
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: how to transform variables
Date
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:13:38 +0000
input var1 var2
4 8
54 89
87 28
39 75
99 96
119 100
end
gen group1 = var1[1]
gen group2 = var2[1]
drop in 1
gen id = _n
reshape long var group , i(id)
sort group id
. l
+-----------------------+
| id _j var group |
|-----------------------|
1. | 1 1 54 4 |
2. | 2 1 87 4 |
3. | 3 1 39 4 |
4. | 4 1 99 4 |
5. | 5 1 119 4 |
|-----------------------|
6. | 1 2 89 8 |
7. | 2 2 28 8 |
8. | 3 2 75 8 |
9. | 4 2 96 8 |
10. | 5 2 100 8 |
+-----------------------+
Nick
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of econqian
Sent: 15 November 2011 11:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: how to transform variables
Hi, all
How to transform the original format of two variables to the new
format of two variables?
Original format
Var1 Var2
4 8
54 89
87 28
39 75
99 96
119 100
New format
Va1 Var2
54 4
87 4
39 4
99 4
119 4
89 8
28 8
75 8
96 8
100 8
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