Joseph Coveney wrote:
> How about something like this?
>
> label define Parties 1 c 2 d 3 l 4 n
> forvalues i = 1/4 {
> encode party`i', generate(Party`i') label(Parties)
> drop party`i'
> rename Party`i' party`i'
> }
OK, it ran, but the end-result still displays letters rather than the
numeric (and real) values I want them to represent.
I should be a bit more specific in explaining what I've tried to overcome
this difficulty (I'm on v8.2). I've used -encode-, as in
. encode party1, gen(winner)
but this merely produced variables with the same characters. Stata won't
accept a simple -recode- such as
. recode party c=1
Michael Blasnik did suggest -subinstr-, but I couldn't work out how to
action this command. Every time I tried it, including
. subinstr(c,l,d,1,2,3)
I kept getting an 'unrecognized command' error (oddly). There has to be a
simple solution to this simple problem!
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