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Re: st: Automatically add prefaces to merged variables
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Automatically add prefaces to merged variables
Date
Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:45:39 +0000
I'd prefix (not preface) names afterwards with -rename- if I needed
to. But beware ruling out large -merge-s.
Nick
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Stephen Cranney <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm merging about thirty different datasets together to form one big
> longitudinal one, and many of them have the same variables but
> different values that change over time (household income, for
> example). I could go through and rename all the relevant variables by
> hand, but is there a quick and easy way to automatically preface every
> variable from dataset X with a certain letter or number during the
> process of or after merging?
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