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st: FW: RE: Looping gen sequentially over datasets
From
"Alex Sutherland" <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: FW: RE: Looping gen sequentially over datasets
Date
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:14:39 +0100
Dear Joe, dear Steve,
Thanks both for the solutions, that?s nailed it. Joe, I am slightly
embarrassed I didn?t know about the append option!
Regards,
Alex
Steve?s solution:
use "dataset1"
g id=1
lab def idlab foo
lab val id idlab
save, replace
forval i = 2/40 {
append using "dataset`i'"
replace id=`i' if (missing)id
}
save "newdata", replace
Joe?s:
local id=0
foreach file in "file1" "file2" ... {
use `file', clear
local ++id
gen School_ID=`id'
save , replace
}
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