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Re: st: Generating exact copy of variable


From   "Philipp Rehm" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Generating exact copy of variable
Date   Fri, 15 May 2009 15:55:32 +0200

.
Many thanks to Jeph Herrin and Maarten L. Buis.
-clonevar- is doing exactly what I need.
Thanks,
Philipp 

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:42:39 -0400
> Von: Jeph Herrin <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: Generating exact copy of variable

> 
> See  -help clonevar-
> 
> 
> 
> Philipp Rehm wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > is there a way to generate an exact copy of a variable? By "exact copy",
> I mean a variable with the same storage type, display format and value
> label. (I can't use -rename- for my problem). I am using Stata/SE 10.1,
> Windows XP.
> > 
> > Below is an example of the problem I ran into.
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Philipp
> > 
> > 
> > . gen test_id= id
> > 
> > . compare test_id id
> > 
> >                                         ---------- difference ----------
> >                             count       minimum      average     maximum
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > test_id<id                 543121          -121    -4.120179          -1
> > test_id=id                  79808
> > test_id>id                 157474             1     19.96243         127
> >                        ----------
> > jointly defined            780403          -121     1.160693         127
> >                        ----------
> > total                      780403
> > 
> > . d test_id id
> > 
> >               storage  display     value
> > variable name   type   format      label      variable label
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > test_id         float  %9.0g
> > id              double %10.0g                 personal id
> > 
> > . gen double test2_id= id
> > 
> > . compare test2_id id
> > 
> >                                         ---------- difference ----------
> >                             count       minimum      average     maximum
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > test2_id=id                780403
> >                        ----------
> > jointly defined            780403             0            0           0
> >                        ----------
> > total                      780403
> > 
> > 
> > 
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