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Re: st: customised output formats


From   Margaret R Grove <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: customised output formats
Date   Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:54:27 -0400

Daniel,

I'm not quite clear on what your "archaic program" consists of - do you have a Stata dataset which you are trying to reformat for other software? I saw the other solutions but I'm seeing the problem a little differently assuming that you want to go from a normal dataset to a special format for the other software.

If that's the case, you could do something like the following to make space for the "PID" and "END" records:

sort pid
expand 2 if pid==pid[_n-1] *** Adds record for identifier only
expand 2 if pid!=pid[_n+1] ***Adds record for "END" only
replace pid="END" if pid!=pid[_n+1]

foreach v of varlist x y {
replace `v'=. if pid!=pid[_n-1]
}

and then do whatever other formatting you need and output to a txt file.

Meg

Daniel Exeter wrote:

Hi there
I have the variables Pid, x, y, t, d

For 1000 participants, and there are many observations for each
participant.
I'm using an archaic program that uses data in the format:

Pid
X,y
X,y
X,y
END
Pid
X,y
X,y
END
And so on.

I would think that I need to :
loop through for each pid
identify the value of pid
write this value to an outfile

loop through all observations of current pid
extract values for x and y
write x and y values to outfile
write "end" into outfile

I tried this logic, but I can't seem to append info to the outfile...
any ideas?

Cheers
Dan


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