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Re: st: "stacking" a variable ?
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: "stacking" a variable ?
Date
Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:33:56 +0000
In this case you can go
replace q2 = q2[_n+3] in 1/3
drop in 4/L
More technique is shown by
clear
input q1 q2
2.05 .
3.01 .
0.75 .
. 1.99
. 1.86
. 0.44
end
egen id = seq(), to(3)
egen j = seq(), block(3)
replace q1 = q2 if missing(q1)
rename q1 q
drop q2
reshape wide q, i(id) j(j)
Nick
[email protected]
On 2 December 2013 16:03, Nick Bornschein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after some problems with my data, I have a final question to deal with them. Imagine the following example:
>
> clear
> input q1 q2
> 2.05 .
> 3.01 .
> 0.75 .
> . 1.99
> . 1.86
> . 0.44
> end
>
> How do I "move" column q2 upwards, so that finally 1.99 is in the same line as 2.05 in the first row, 1.86 is besides 3.01 and so on.
>
> Thanks a lot
> -Nick
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