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Re: st: generate variable versus define scalar, with conditional statement
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: generate variable versus define scalar, with conditional statement
Date
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:33:24 +0100
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:25 PM, annoporci wrote:
> yes, I see, absolutely, I did try this also:
>
> scalar newscalar = open[3jan2012]
>
> but it didn't work, even after a tsset date, and there must be a logical
> explanation
> for that too, naturally, but I guess I ran out of ideas and stopped
> thinking.
If you type in Stata -varname[<something>]- than <something> is an
observation number. So 1 for the first observation, 2 for the second,
etc. So <something> can never be string.
-- Maarten
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