Michael Blasnik wrote:
Check out the advanced syntax for reshape. I believe that you can specify
the location of the "j" part of the variable names using the @ symbol. I
haven't used this option in a while, but I think you will need to specify
that the j variable is a string and may need to use the atwl() option for
the reshape xij line.
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I never seriously looked into -reshape-'s advanced syntax instructions
before, and instead used the renaming method that Neil Shephard showed.
But the advanced-syntax -reshape- method is faster and easier once you get
the hang of it.
Joseph coveney
clear
set more off
set seed `=date("2006-04-26", "ymd")'
set obs 100
foreach letter in `c(ALPHA)' {
generate byte `letter'SMOKES = uniform() > 0.5
replace `letter'SMOKES = .n if uniform() > 0.9
}
generate byte ID = _n
*
* Begin here
*
reshape i ID
reshape j WAVE, string
reshape xij @SMOKES
reshape query // Optional--just to examine
reshape long
exit
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