Re: st: Droping rows in the other data set

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I guess the -egen- route could be made to work for very small
datasets. For large datasets, you are asking to fit lots of
identifiers into an option argument. That's likely to hit some limit
or another. -merge- really is the way to go.

Incidentally,

1. if you have a local macro LIST, references to it should be $LIST.
2. nothing in your code qualifies as a scalar in Stata terms.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com

On 9 February 2014 22:55, Eilya Torshizian <e.torshizian@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> Thanks for your prompt reply. I was thinking of using merge; however, my code didn't work well. Yours is perfect.
>
> For the future reference, there is a typo in the code,
>
> ...
> merge m:1 id using id1
> ...
>
> BTW, I am curious to know if it's possible to implement the other strategy or not (i.e. by using the 'egen' command)? The main issue is to change the scalar's format.

Rich Goldstein

> if I understand you correctly the following appears to be a much easier strategy
>
> use data1
> keep id
> duplicates drop
> sort id
> save id1
> us data2
> sort id
> merge m:1 is using id1
> drop if _merge==1
> save data2a
>
> of course you need to substitute your own data set names, etc.
>
> also, you were not clear about what you want to do with any id that is in data1 but not in data2 (these will have _merge=2)

Eilya Torshizian

>>I have two datasets. I would like to delete the rows in the Second data set that are not included in the First data set. The "ID" variable is included in both datasets with repeating values. However, some rows of the "ID" are dropped in the First data set. Let's assume that the "ID" variable in the First dataset is as follows,
>>First:
>> ID
>>11
>>11
>>13
>>15
>>While the "ID" variable does not include 12 and 14 values in the First data set, in the Second dataset 12 and 14 are included:
>>Second:
>>ID
>>11
>>12
>>12
>>13
>>14
>>14
>>15
>>
>>I need to delete the incompatible rows from the Second data set.
>>
>>I was thinking of using the 'egen - anymatch' command. To do so, I need the list of values from the First data set, which is derived from the following command,
>>
>>- use "First.dta", clear
>>- levelsof ID
>>- global LIST `r(levels)'
>>- clear
>>
>>Then I use the LIST scalar in the second data set:
>>
>>- use "Second.dta"
>>- egen KEEP = anymatch(ID), values(LIST)
>>- drop if KEEP == 0
>>
>>However, as the LIST is scalar, I am not able to do so. I appreciate your comments.

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