RE: st: Reshape problem

["Fiedler, James (JSC-SK)[UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOC-DIV OF SPACE LIFE SCIENCES]" <james.fiedler-1@nasa.gov>]

Ok, second attempt. I think this gets what you want, and I think it's general enough to work in a real situation. It's probably not the most elegant solution, though.

It saves the variable names in individual locals. There might be a better to do this, but I'm guessing this is fine when there are just a few variable names.



input mAug_99 mSep_99 mOct_99 str6 variables
1 3 5 v1
2 4 6 v11
end

local N = _N
forv i=1(1)`N' {
	local name`i' = variables[`i']
}

xpose , varname clear

local counter = 0
foreach var of varlist * {
	local counter = `counter' + 1
	if ("`name`counter''" != "") {
		rename `var' `name`counter''
	}
}

drop in l
rename _varname month
replace month = substr(month, 2, .)




James

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Fiedler, James (JSC-SK)[UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOC-DIV OF SPACE  LIFE SCIENCES] [james.fiedler-1@nasa.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:52 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: st: Reshape problem

Actually, my code doesn't get the variables names the way you want. You'd have to do something differently for that part.


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Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:47 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: RE: st: Reshape problem

Agreeing with the other responses, it does look like you want to transpose the data. Here's some code that (I think) gets the data the way you want it.



input mAug_99 mSep_99 mOct_99 str6 variables
1 3 5 v1
2 4 6 v11
end

xpose , varname clear
drop in l
rename _varname month
replace month = substr(month, 2, .)



James


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Olivia Bacha [oliviabacha@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:45 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Reshape problem

It is not much clear to me what you want to do. If you just want to
transpose your data try

xpose, clear

Regards,
Olivia

2012/8/22 Dorothy Bridges <dbstata@gmail.com>:
> You could try:
>
> reshape long m, i(variables) j(month)
> reshape wide m, i(month) j(variables, string)
>
> You could also look into xpose and sxpose.
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Pedro Nakashima
> <nakashimapedrolist@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear statalisters
>>
>> I'm using Stata 12
>>
>> I'm trying to put a data in the form:
>>
>> input mAug_99 mSep_99 mOct_99 str6 variables
>> 1 3 5 v1
>> 2 4 6 v11
>> end
>>
>> into other like:
>>
>> input v1 v11 month
>> 1 2 Aug_99
>> 3 4 Sep_99
>> 5 6 Oct_99
>> end
>>
>> I tryied the command
>>
>> reshape long m, i(variables) j(month)
>>
>> but it didn't create the variables v1 and v11, which I wanted
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> Best,
>> Pedro.
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