Thank you to Maarten and Billy for your quick and helpful replies. I wondered is it possible to alter the syntax so that this can be done in an automated way for many variables?
I can repeat your set of commands for each variable e.g.
forvalues i = 2/10 {
local j = 1990 + (2*`i')
rename r`i'mobila mobila_`j'
ma drop j
}
forvalues i = 2/10 {
local j = 1990 + (2*`i')
rename r`i'lgmusa lgmusa_`j'
ma drop j
}
Etc.
However, I have do this for many variables so can you plug in a line with a list of these variables to avoid repeating the command over and over again?
Thank you
Kind regards
Oliver
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Maarten Buis
Sent: 05 April 2013 14:40
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: forval query
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Mirnezami, Oliver wrote:
> Previously i've been renaming variables manually en masse using the following code:
>
> rename r2mobila mobila_1994
> rename r3mobila mobila_1996
> rename r4mobila mobila_1998
> .etc..
> rename r10mobila mobila_2010
>
> i.e. '2' corresponds with '1994', '3' with '1996' etc.
forvalues i = 2/10 {
local y = 2*`i' +1990
rename r`i'mobila mobila_`y'
}
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