Re: st: Presenting a country-period table

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 21:10 01/04/04 +0200, Jan Pettersson wrote:
> Dear all.
> Maybe this is a "RTFM"-question. Sorry in that case.
> Anyway, I have a list of the following form:
>
> country periodstart periodend
> Argentina 1986 1989
> Argentina 1990 1993
> Argentina 1994 1997
> Argentina 1998 2001
> Bolivia 1986 1989
> Bolivia 1990 1993
> Bolivia 1994 1997
> Bolivia 1998 2001
> Botswana 1974 1977
> Botswana 1978 1981
> Botswana 1982 1985
> etc.
>
> that I would like to present in a table looking like:
>
> Argentina (1986 - 1989, 1990 - 1993, 1994 - 1997, 1998 - 2001);
> Bolivia (1986 - 1989, 1990 - 1993, 1994 - 1997, 1998 - 2001);
> Botswana (1974 - 1977, 1978 - 1981, 1982 - 1985);
> etc.
The FM to read is probably -[R] reshape- or -help reshape-.

Roger


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