--- Marcos Feldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> can anyone help me figure this out? i am trying to create a new
> variable based on an existing variable containing zoning codes. i
> actually have two variables with the zoning codes, one is string
> format another is long format. the codes (values) in both look like
> this: 0001, 0004, 0072, 9001, etc. I want to replace these codes with
> their descriptors, e.g., convert 0001 to "single-family residential,"
> and so on.
>
> thus far stata has not allowed me to recode either string or long
> variables into "text".
>
> for example, for the long variable "PRI_ZONE" i used the command,
> recode test ("0002"="MULTIFAMILY DUPLEX") ("0100"="SINGLE FAMILY
> RESIDENCE").... [many more such commands...]
> but the response was "unknown el MULTIFAMILY DUPLEX in rule"
> is recoding into text not allowed? have i just written the rules
> incorrectly? is there some other way to accomplish this
> transformation?
-decode- might help, see: -help decode-
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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