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help for {hi:reshape8}{right: Bill Rising}
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{hi:An improved reshape}

{title:Description}
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{cmd:reshape8} improves {cmd:reshape} by preserving variable labels as
much as possible when switching back and forth between long and wide
dataset formats. Hence, taking a dataset from long to wide and back to
long will result in getting the same dataset labelling back again.
When going from wide to long, there are some labels which are not
defined; if they are then defined and the dataset is reshaped
multiple times, they will be persistent.
Aside from the command name, its usage is otherwise identical to
{cmd:reshape}, so see {help reshape} for syntax information.
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{title:Notes}
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{cmd:reshape8} runs only under Stata 8 and above.
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{title:Author}
Bill Rising 
email: {browse "mailto:brising@louisville.edu":brising@louisville.edu} 
web: {browse "http://www.louisville.edu/~wrrisi01":http://www.louisville.edu/~wrrisi01}

{title:Last Updated}: March 30, 2004 @ 11:06:20
