Dear Maarten, Sebastian, and Rodrigo,
Thank you for the valuable advice! I tried all the variants and they
worked fine.
Thanks again,
Vladimir.
On 7/10/07, Rodrigo A. Alfaro <[email protected]> wrote:
There is a user-ado called -takelogs- that
adds the prefix "l" to the new variables.
findit takelogs
help takelogs
Rodrigo.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian F. Büchte" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: st: generating new variables: any shortcut?
> You could try -foreach-:
>
> foreach elem of varlist var1-var15 {
> gen log_`elem' = log(`elem')
> }
>
> hth
> Sebastian
>
> On 7/10/07, Vladimir V. Dashkeyev <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I want to create new variables by taking logarithms of old variables
>> and I want to keep old names:
>>
>> -- gen log_var1 = log(var1) --
>>
>> If I need to take logs of all the variables in the dataset or at least
>> of the variables that are named consequently (e.g. var1,
>> var2...var15), is there a way to generate new variables by a single
>> command?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Vladimir.
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