RE: st: Keep data according to one data file's varlist

["Sarah Edgington" <sedging@ucla.edu>]

I don't think I understand your question.
This does not affect which observations are included in the data.  It only
determines which variables are included.
If this isn't clear to you, you might want to start with -help keep- to see
how to keep/drop variables and how to keep/drop observations.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.
harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Zhangqunzi
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 3:02 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Keep data according to one data file's varlist

Thanks a lot !

I will implement but will this approach gives me the new data set with the
reduced varlist ?
I mean I can also keep the observations according to the reduced varlist,
right?


在 Nov 7, 2012，11:50 PM，"Sarah Edgington" <sedging@ucla.edu> 写道：

> See -help ds- for info on getting the list of the variables in your data.
>
> Are there any variables in your second data file that do not exist in
> the first?  If there aren't you could do something like:
>
> use data2, clear
> ds
> use data1, clear
> keep `r(varlist)'
>
> If there are variables in data2 that don't exist in data1 this example
> will produce errors, but if data2 is a strict subset of the variables
> of the first file it should be fine.
>
> -Sarah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.
> harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Zhangqunzi
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:25 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Keep data according to one data file's varlist
>
> Actually, I want to make the two big data sets have the same variable
> name list which is from the second file. Some variables in data file 1
> need to be dropped.
>
> I think I should creat a name list from data 2 then select the data
> from data 1 according to this data 2 name list.
>
> Can u tell me how to code in Stata?
> Thanks
>
> 在 Nov 7, 2012，7:46 PM，Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> 写道：
>
>> Sounds like
>>
>> . drop var2 var4
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Zhangqunzi
>> <zhangqunzi@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>> I have two dta files, first one with variables : var 1 2 3 4 5
>>> Second one with
>>> Variables: vart 1 3 5
>>>
>>> As their names.
>>>
>>> Now I would like to drop the extra variables in data file 1 which
>>> are var
> 2 4.
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