Re: st: Stacking variables

[Nima Darbari <ramharz@gmail.com>]

Dear Nick
Indeed now I think about it reshaping is much easier here.
Best
Nima

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> A different comment is that, on this information, -reshape- might be a
> better solution than -stack-.
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 16 December 2013 13:06, daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I stopped reading at
>>
>> foreach var of PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55{
>>
>> Read the help file for -foreach- to learn that
>> PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55 is, of course, not a legal list
>> type. You probably want
>>
>> foreach var of var PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55 {
>>
>> Also note that there should be a space between PreturnoverEvent55 and
>> the brace (i.e. {). There might be more errors in the code, but I
>> guess you should be able to catch them, reading the respective help
>> files caerfully.
>>
>> Best
>> Daniel
>>
>> --
>> Dear All
>> [...] I wrote the code below but for some 'invalid syntax' error it didn't work.
>>
>> gen PreEventTurnover=.
>> foreach var of PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55{
>> local first=((real(substr("`var'",17,2))*371)-370)
>> local last=(real(substr("`var'",17,2))*371)
>> local c=1
>> forvalues d=`first'(1)`last'{
>> replace PreEventTurnover= `var'[`c'] in `d'
>> local c=`c'+1
>> }
>> }
>>
>> [...]
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