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Re: st: AW: RE: renaming variables


From   Abhimanyu Arora <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: AW: RE: renaming variables
Date   Mon, 24 May 2010 17:40:54 +0200

Thanks for yet another more efficient solution. Solves the problem!
Best regards
Abhimanyu

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
>
> " Yes indeed , I should have mentioned while thanking,
> that I had to drop the var54+3.. and var55+3... before applying
> Martin's solution to get exectly what I wanted..."
>
>
>
> Well, if you had said it, I would have replied that you can gather the
> relevant -varname-s in a -local- and loop over it:
>
>
> *************
> //create vars
>
> clear*
>
> forv i=53/108{
>        gen var`i'=1
> }
>
> //-rename-
> loc start 1990
>
> //get vars into -local-
>
> forv i=53(3)108{
>        loc myvars `myvars' var`i'
> }
>
> foreach var of local myvars{
>        ren `var' year`start'
>        loc ++start
> }
> *************
>
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Abhimanyu Arora
> Gesendet: Montag, 24. Mai 2010 17:21
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: AW: RE: renaming variables
>
> Hi Martin Nick Paul
>
> Thank you Paul. Yes indeed , I should have mentioned while thanking,
> that I had to drop the var54+3.. and var55+3... before applying
> Martin's solution to get exectly what I wanted...
>
> Best regards
>
> Abhimanyu
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> <>
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> I really do not understand what you think is wrong with the solution, not
>> even after thinking about it for 15 minutes. I was kind of waiting for
>> Abhimanyu to come to the list saying he ended up with the wrong -rename-d
>> vars b/c his initial state was not ours in that it was not in alphabetical
>> order:
>>
>> *************
>> //create vars
>>
>> clear*
>>
>> loc mynumbers 104 59 62 53 56 65 101 107 95 68 71 74 80 77 89 83 86 92 98
>>
>>
>> foreach i of local mynumbers{
>>        gen var`i'=1
>> }
>> *************
>>
>> But a simple -aorder- would have changed the order to the one required.
>>
>> Your complaint seems to refer to a data structure that Abhimanyu never
>> requested...
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Seed, Paul
>> Gesendet: Montag, 24. Mai 2010 16:00
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: st: RE: renaming variables
>>
>> I'm afraid there is a problem with Nick Cox's elegant solutions
>> to Abhimanyu Arora's problem.
>>
>> Abhimanyu asked:
>> "I would like to rename my variables var53....var108 such that var53,
>> var56, var59 ......var107 etc...are renamed as year1990,
>> year1991......year2008 repectively. I tried to use renvars(by Jeroen
>> Weesie) and a forvalues loop, but am not able to succeed.
>>
>> And Nick suggested
>>
>>
>> //-rename-
>> loc start 1990
>>
>> foreach var of varlist var* {
>>        ren `var' year`start'
>>        loc ++start
>> }
>>
>> However, the use of var* assumes a very unusual data set, in
>> which the only "varX" variables are the year variables
>> that need renaming, and they are spaced 3-apart with nothing
>> in the gaps. This is the case in the artificial example Nick produces:
>>
>> clear
>> set obs 1
>> forv i=53(1)107{
>>        gen var`i'=1
>> }
>>
>>
>> Consider perhaps a more realistic data set:
>> clear
>> sysuse auto
>> forv i=40(1)107{
>>        gen var`i'=1
>> }
>>
>> Now Nick's solution needs to be adapted slightly.
>>
>>
>> //-rename2-
>>
>> loc start 1990
>> forv i=53(3)107{
>>        ren `var'`i' year`start'
>>        loc ++start
>> }
>>
>> It can also be extended to other variables.
>> I assume that year is in each case the first
>> (rather than the second or last) of a
>> cluster of 3 variables:
>>
>> //-rename3-
>>
>> loc start 1990
>> forv i=53(3)107{
>>        ren `var'`i' year`start'
>>        local j = `i' + 1
>>        ren `var'`j' thing_one_`start'
>>        local j = `i' + 2
>>        ren `var'`j' thing_two_`start'
>>        loc ++start
>> }
>>
>>
>> (with acknowledgements to Dr Seuss)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat
>>
>> *********************************************************************
>> Paul T Seed
>> King's College London, Division of Reproduction and Endocrinology
>> St Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH
>> *********************************************************************
>>
>>
>>
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