Re: st: Changing part of variable names

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Hi Nick,

thanks for your reply.

The problem is a bit more complicated. The issue is not that I have 11 files, but that I have some 400 variables in each file, each variable having a year tag at a random place in its name. 
Examples of variable names: permit09 , hab_ch09 , plingu09 , pdate09 , p09d160 , p09d161 , p09d162 . The "09" is the year tag, and I want to replace that with XX or somthing similar using a loop. I checked out the renvars package, but I don't see how I can avoid typing 400 variable names with it.

Thanks,
Frank


 


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 24 May 2011 14:34:46 +0100
> Von: Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: Re: st: Changing part of variable names

> Thanks for the mention. Note that -renvars- is a joint production by
> Jeroen Weesie
> and myself.
> 
> However, in this case I don't see that you need anything other than
> -rename-.
> 
> Let's suppose that the files are called -file1- to -file11-.
> 
> forval i = 1/11 {
>      use file`i'
>     rename income?? income
>     save, replace
> }
> 
> For a more complicated set of filenames, use e.g. -fs- (SSC) followed by
> 
> foreach f in `r(files)' {
>      use "`f'"
>      ...
> }
> 
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:27 PM,  <live@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> I have the following problem: I have 11 separate Stata-files, each
> containing a cross-section for one specific year. The variables in each
> corss-section are the same, except for the names, which carry a year tag in the
> variable name, so there's e.g. income07 in the cross-section for 2007, and
> income08 in the one for 2008. Now, I want to transform these 11 files into
> one panel data set. Therefore, I need to rename the variables in each cross
> section (several hundreds per cross-section) such that they have the same
> name, i.e. income07 and income08 need to become incomeXX -otherwise "append"
> wouldn't work. How do I do this with a loop? Further complication: the year
> tag can be anywhere in the variable name, things like in07come, income07
> or inco07me are possible.
> >
> > The easiest solution is probably to use Nick Cox's -renvars-. You can
> > find it by typing in Stata -findit renvars-.
> >
> 
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