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Re: st: How do I store the value of an observation to a note?
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Aaron Kirkman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How do I store the value of an observation to a note?
Date
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:57:59 -0500
Hi Phil,
That does exactly what I need. Thank you!
Aaron
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Phil Clayton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Have you tried something like this?
>
> ----------
> sysuse auto, clear
> quietly count
> forvalues n = 1/`r(N)' {
> note: `=make[`n']'
> }
> notes
> ----------
>
> Phil
>
>
> On 23/10/2012, at 1:14 PM, Aaron Kirkman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Statalist,
>>
>> I have a raw data set that includes a --notes-- variable with
>> miscellaneous notes about the data set stored in each observation.
>> These notes aren't related to the observations with which they are
>> paired. I'm trying to loop through the observations and store each
>> value of the --notes-- variable to a new note in the dataset. So far,
>> I tried this:
>>
>> ##
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> quietly count
>> forvalues n = 1/`r(N)' {
>> note: make[`n']
>> }
>> notes
>>
>> ##
>>
>> but this stores the text -- make[...] -- to individual notes, as shown:
>>
>> ##
>>
>> 1. from Consumer Reports with permission
>> 2. make[1]
>> 3. make[2]
>> 4. make[3]
>> 5. make[4]
>> 6. make[5]
>> 7. make[6]
>> 8. make[7]
>> 9. make[8]
>> 10. make[9]
>> ...
>>
>> ##
>>
>> I can write the notes to a file with code like this:
>> ##
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> quietly count
>> file open fh using "notes.txt", write replace
>> forvalues n = 1/`r(N)' {
>> file write fh (make[`n']) _n
>> }
>> file close fh
>>
>> ##
>>
>> but I would like to store the notes to the dataset, if possible.
>> Simply wrapping parentheses around the -- notes[`n'] -- line in the
>> first sample, as done in the second sample, does not work (the
>> parentheses simply show up in the notes with the contents otherwise
>> unchanged).
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Aaron Kirkman
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