Not so far as I know. The best strategy here
is probably to -reshape- from wide to long, use an 
appropriate command and then -reshape- back. 
There is an example in 
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/reshape3.html
Nick 
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Jonas Dovern
> is there a command to perform the computation of quantiles accross 
> observations rather than "vertically" accross the elements of 
> only one 
> variable? (I look for something like egen var_new = rmean(varlist1).)
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