Re: st: Re: encode string in batch way

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

I'd add that it is often useful to prefix a command with -capture 
noisily-.  That way, you get to see its output. Without -noisily-, 
capture suppresses output.

--David


at 07:25 AM 9/21/2006, you wrote:


> Prefix the command that gives you trouble with capture, and the loop
> will keep running.
>
> Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
> http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> [...]
> On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Jia wrote:
>
> > However, you know, there are numerous problems in the file like this,
> > and I try to encode them a batch way.
> > label define yesno 0 "N" 1 "Y"
> > forvalue i=1(1)614 {
> > encode v`i', gen(vv`i') label(yesno)
> > drop v`i'
> > rename vv`i' v`i'
> > }
> >
> > Then I was informed
> > not possible with numeric variable
> > r(107);
> > end of do-file
> > r(107);
> >
> >
> > Can you help me out? Since there are numerous similar problems,
> > dealing with them one by one is really annoying.
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