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Re: st: a reverse wildcard or other way to mean "all variables but..."
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: a reverse wildcard or other way to mean "all variables but..."
Date
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:12:46 +0100
ds ID, not
collapse `r(varlist)', by(ID)
or use -findname- (SJ, SSC) to the same effect.
Nick
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Doug Hess <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought I was being smart and quick with the following one-liner
>
> -collapse *, by(ID)-
>
> But, of course, the variable named ID is included in the wildcard
> before the comma, which means the command gives the error statement
> "control may not be both target and by()." I'm not sure if the
> solution is some reverse of the wildcard or way to say: _all "but
> don't include ID when I say _all". I guess one can just include all
> the variables in a - local - or -global- and then hunt for and remove
> the one variable you want left out. But is there a code for
> subtracting something from * or _all on the fly, so to speak?
>
> Thank you. I'm on the list in digest mode, so if replies can cc me,
> that would helpful.
>
> [P.S. I found this discussion in the archive, but it's not exactly the
> same issue: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-10/msg00507.html
> ]
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