Statalist


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

st: RE: data management question


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: data management question
Date   Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:11:42 -0000

If I understand this correctly, you want 

forval i = 1/2138 { 
	bysort id (asc`i') : replace asc`i' = asc`i'[_N] 
} 
by id : keep if _n == _N 

Your original loop isn't executable code, and I don't understand it as pseudocode, but (again if I understand you correctly) you don't need a loop for that part anyway. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Nikhil Jha

I have a question related to data management. I have a fairly large
data set in the following format:

id  asc1 asc2 asc3........
___________________________________
1    1    0    0
1    0    1    0
---------------------------------
2    0    1    0
2    1    0    0
2    0    0    1
----------------------------------
:
:
where id is the identifier and asc1, asc2, etc are associations
related to specific ids.

I would like to put it in this format eventually.

id  asc1 asc2 asc3........
___________________________________
1    1    1    0
2    1    1    1
:
:
My plan was to  use reshape wide  for which I needed it to first look like this:

id  asc1 asc2 asc3........
___________________________________
1    1    1    0
1    1    1    0
---------------------------------
2    1    1    1
2    1    1    1
2    1    1    1
----------------------------------
:
:
That is if ever a particular id is associated with any asc, that
column is 1 for all occurrence of that particular id.

This could probably be done with.....
bysort id : g byte assc1 =  sum(asc1)
or
collapse (sum) asc1-asc2138 , by (id)


But my problem is that there are 2138 asc (i.e. last var is asc2138)
[and not enough memory (see below) for collapse], so I want to
automate this. So I tried to do a loop like:

egen same = group(id)

forvalues i =1/_N{
     local j = 1
     while `j'=same{
     g ascc`j' =1
    continue
    local j = `j'+1
    }
}

But this just doesn't work - invalid syntax (using Stata 10). Any
pointers (either for fixing this loop or the original problem) would
be greatly appreciated.


*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/



© Copyright 1996–2024 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   What's new   |   Site index