Re: st: pasting into stata

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

It is not clear what your data look like, or what sort of file you are copying from, but it would almost surely be 
easier to put all of the data into Stata and use Stata to create the dataset you want.


Jeph

On 9/18/2013 7:36 AM, Drew Reed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to paste into Stata in a certain way and I'm hoping someone
> knows code that will make this easier for me. I am working with panel
> data and need to populate a 'sum' variable so that I can subtract a
> variable that contains entity specific information so that I can
> produce a spillover variable.
>
> I have basically collapsed my information by date so that I am given a
> sum of all events that have happened during the 2813 days being used
> for observations. There are 70 entities I would need to paste this
> information into and as of right now the only way I know how to do
> this is to go through my dataset manually, filtering by id, and then
> putting in the variable.
>
> Is there a faster way to paste as such? I had originally used a looped
> code to try to generate these variables and after a week of running
> this code it produced faulty measures. I'd rather just put in the time
> and get it right but I'd also like to know if there is a paste option
> where I can paste the same data for all id values.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Drew
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