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Re: st: using foreach and encode together
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: using foreach and encode together
Date
Thu, 7 Jun 2012 10:07:38 +0100
The variable name
IntegrTNM_Stage_Algo_No_assumpti
is already 32 characters long, so you can't prepend "v2" to get
another variable name. You have to shorten it.
I would -drop- only if the -encode- works. If the -encode- fails then
it's true that the loop would stop, as here, but in general watch out
that you might lose the variable.
if _rc == 0 drop `var'
Nick
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Tim Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to encode a number of string variables and generate new variables which contain the string values as labels. I have a number of these variables and am trying to avoid doing each manually, however, I am encountering some problems with the syntax. A quick google search has not yielded any answers for me. I'm using Stata 11.2.
>
> Here is my code:
>
> foreach var of varlist IntegrT_Stage_Algo Nodes_Positive IntegrTNM_Stage_Algo_No_assumpti InvStatus {
> encode `var', gen(v2`var')
> }
>
> this is my error message:
>
> option gen() incorrectly specified
> r(198);
>
> I guess what I would also like once I have generated the new variable, to drop the string version - perhaps I can add -drop `var'- after the -encode- line?
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