-renvars- is not official Stata, but may be downloaded
after -search renvars-.
I guess that the -string- option is an alternative
to what is here, but it's a good idea any way.
Nick
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Michael S. Hanson
> On Feb 18, 2007, at 5:33 AM, Svend Juul wrote:
>
> > On Feb 18, 2007, at 4:57 AM, Clive Nicholas wrote:
> >
> >> . reshape long conle98-othle00, i(id) j(year)
> >> no xij variables found
> >> r(111);
> >>
> >> . reshape long rsex01 conle98-othle00, i(id) j(year)
> >> no xij variables found
> >> r(111);
> >
> > You should:
> > reshape long conle lable ldmle othle , i(id) j(year)
> >
> > Apart from that: I suspect that you will get a problem with the
> > years 98,99,00;
> > You might want to rename:
> > rename conle00 conle100
> > to get increasing years.
>
> To reiterate what Svend (and Nick) have suggested:
> your use of
> stubs instead of variable names with -reshape- is the source of the r
> (111) error message. However, in my experience Svend's
> conjecture is
> also correct: Stata tends not to recognize the crossing of
> centuries
> with two-digit years. You might consider first renaming your data
> series with -renvars-, such as:
>
> renvars *99, postsub(99 1999)
> renvars *00, postsub(00 2000)
>
> etc., which will save some time over a series of individual -rename-
> commands. IMO, the -test- option on -renvars- is
> particularly useful
> in cases like this one. Hope this helps.
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