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Re: st: Reshape question


From   Keith Dear <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Reshape question
Date   Sun, 8 May 2011 10:00:43 +1000

Mike,
Not that I know of. You might be able to build the list as a macro,
using a loop that exploits the structure of the 70 names. But really,
70 isn't so very many -- why not just list them explicitly, like this:

loc mylist gg hh ii		// etc etc
loc mylist = subinstr(" `mylist'"," "," @_",.)		// nb leading spaces
reshape long `mylist', i(id) j(country) string

Keith

On 7 May 2011 22:22, Mike Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Keith Dear,
>
> Thank you, it works! Additional question is... my data contain around 70
> different variable names with the same pattern (so, the total variables are
> 70*5 = 3500). Is there any way I can reshape without listing all 70 variable
> names?
>
> Mike.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Dear
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 1:02 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Reshape question
>
> reshape long @_gg @_hh @_ii , i(id) j(country) string
>
>
> On 7 May 2011 14:00, Mike Kim <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> My data looks like the following and I want to reshape it from wide to
> long.
>> There are many more similar variables with the same pattern. Is there any
>> easy way to reshape?
>>
>> id a_gg b_gg c_gg d_gg e_gg  a_hh b_hh c_hh d_hh e_hh  a_ii b_ii c_ii d_ii
>> e_ii   ..
>> 1     1        5        3        1      2        4        1        1
>> 5         1        3      1      1     4      1
>> 2    4        1        1        2       1        1        1        2
>> 1         1         1      1      5     1      1
>> 3    2        1        2        1       1        1        5        1
>> 1         3         1      1      1     3      1
>> ..
>>
>> The data format I want is:
>>
>> id country gg  hh  ii  ..
>> 1     a
>> 1     b
>> 1     c
>> 1     d
>> 1     e
>> 2     a
>> 2     b
>> 2     c
>> 2     d
>> 2     e
>> 3     a
>> 3     b
>> 3     c
>> 3     d
>> 3     e
>> ......
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>> Mike.
>>
>>
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>
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> Australian National University
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Dr Keith Dear
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200 Australia
Phone +61 (02) 6273 2208

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