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RE: st: data management - sets of two lines into single line observation


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: data management - sets of two lines into single line observation
Date   Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:42:54 -0000

I assume variables 

Epid
Att 
Ned
Yag 
Pallad 

and no identifiers. Then 

egen id = seq(), block(2) 
egen coll = seq(), to(2) 
reshape wide Epid Att Ned Yag Pallad, i(id) j(coll) 
renvars *1, postdrop(1) 
drop Pallad2 
renvars *2 \ Gord Molb Nur Zn 
destring, replace 

where -renvars- can be found via -search-.  

Scott Merryman

On Nov 8, 2007 5:32 AM, b. water <[email protected]> wrote:

> stata 8.2,
>
> would appreciate advice on how the following data management
transformation can be undertaken:
>
> at the moment data look like this:
>
> Epid    Att     Ned     Yag     Pallad
> Gord    Molb    Nur     Zn
> Yes     5       twice   Off     Present
> 2       3       PRN     no
> No      4       no      On      Present
> 0       1       no      yes
> .       .       .       .       .
> .       .       .       .
> .       .       .       .       .
> .       .       .       .
> Yes     5       twice   Off     Present
> 2       3       PRN     no
> No      4       no      On      Present
> 0       1       no      yes
>
> i want to change it so it looks like this:
>
> Epid    Att     Ned     Yag     Pallad  Gord    Molb    Nur     Zn
> Yes     5       twice   Off     Present 2       3       PRN     no
> No      4       no      On      Present 0       1       no      yes
> .
> .
> .
> .
> Yes     5       twice   Off     Present 2       3       PRN     no
> No      4       no      On      Present 0       1       no      yes
>
>

Like this?

clear
tempfile foo1 odd even
input str4 Epid str4 Att str5 Ned str3 Yag str7 Pallad
Gord    Molb    Nur     Zn
Yes     5       twice   Off     Present
2       3       PRN     no
No      4       no      On      Present
0       1       no      yes
end
l
save `foo1',replace
keep if mod(_n,2)
drop Pall
ds
foreach l in `r(varlist)' {
 local a `=`l'[1]'
 rename `l'  `a'
}
drop in 1
save `odd', replace
use `foo1',clear
keep if ! mod(_n,2)
save `even', replace
merge using `odd'
drop _m
l

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