Re: st: Collapsing and renaming variables

[David Kantor <dkantor@jhu.edu>]

I'm not sure what you meant by the question about -collapse-, but regarding 
the renaming operation, you can do this:

local torename "a b c d"  // and whatever else you want to apply it to

foreach var of local torename {
 ren `var' `var'_old
}

Certainly this could be made into a program if one wished to do so.  (In 
case it is of interest, I have a program to substitute suffixes in variable 
names.)

-- David

At 03:58 PM 2/24/2004 -0500, Adrian wrote:

> Is there a way to collapse the data and tell Stata to automatically
> rename the collapsed variables?
>
> Perhaps this is too specific and not too many people would need that...
>
> In that case, is there a way to rename a bunch of variables at once? For
> instance, to tell Stata that I want variables a, b, c, d, ... renamed
> a_old, b_old, c_old, d_old, ... or something like that?
>
> Thank you.
> Adrian
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
dkantor@jhu.edu
410-516-5404

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