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Re: st: extracting of data
From
Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: extracting of data
Date
Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:32:55 -0500
As Nick says, there is still some mystery about what you are doing. But
working off my previous guess, it looks like I made a mistake. The error
refers to trying to save your temporary file when it already exists; you
will need the two corrections //commented below:
clear
set more off
set mem 500m
tempfile mydata
forv l=1/9 {
clear // CLEAR data
save `mydata', emptyok replace // <-REPLACE
forv d=1/9 {
infile using D:\TEAM_PC\level`l'\level`d'.dct, clear
capture append using `mydata'
save `mydata', replace
}
keep if level==`l'
save "D:\TEAM_PC\level`l'_list.dta", replace
}
cheers,
J
On 1/22/2013 11:58 PM, Prakash Singh wrote:
Jeph thanks for the kind help.
There seems to be small problem, if you could lighten a bit more then
I think I am through.
Though the loop is reading all the dct file within level but in the
end it gives error massage
file D:\TEAM_PC\level1_list.dta saved
file C:\Users\Prakash\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_00000003.tmp already exists
r(602);
Prakash
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you have 9 different .dct files for each level? Then maybe you intend
something like this:
clear
set more off
set mem 500m
tempfile mydata
forv l=1/9 {
save `mydata', emptyok
forv d=1/9 {
infile using D:\TEAM_PC\level`l'\level`d'.dct, clear
capture append using `mydata'
save `mydata', replace
}
keep if level==`l'
save "D:\TEAM_PC\level`l'_list.dta", replace
}
hth,
Jeph
On 1/21/2013 1:15 PM, Prakash Singh wrote:
Nick
Though I managed to write the code and run it but I realised today
that for each level stata is extracting data from only one txt file.
which means that only one dct file is being read.
here is the revised code
clear
set more off
set mem 500m
tempfile mydata
forv l=1/9 {
infile using D:\TEAM_PC\level`l'\level`l'.dct, clear
capture append using `mydata'
save `mydata', replace
keep if level==`l'
save "D:\TEAM_PC\level`l'_list.dta", replace
}
Regards
Prakash
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Prakash Singh <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks Nick
I got it finally
Best wishes to all stata listers for 2013
Regards
Prakash
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't understand what is holding you up. Your code shows that you
are familiar with -foreach- and -forval-. So you need to write another
big loop using that construct.
Nick
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Prakash Singh <[email protected]>
wrote:
Nick, I thanked you for that
I mentioned in the first mail that the structure of the data is such
that to have final data I need to extract 9 (using 9 dct file for each
level) different level files then some of them I need to reshape and
then merge them.
Hope, I have made my query more clear to you.
regards
Prakash
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
You don't comment on my replacement of 9 lines of code with 1.
Your main loop looks like another -forval- or -foreach- loop but you
don't explain why you want to save different levels in different
datasets.
Nick
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Prakash Singh <[email protected]>
wrote:
Nick sorry but that is type error.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Moreover I am looking some help on creating look so that I can repeat
the following code for each level 1 to 9.
clear
set more off
set mem 500m
tempfile mydata
foreach l of numlist 11/19 {
infile using D:\TEAM_PC\level`l'.dct, clear
capture append using `mydata'
save `mydata', replace
}
use `mydata', clear
keep if level==1
save level1_list.dta", replace
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