Works without a hitch on my Stata 10.0 under Vista. Next time, specify the
filename please. It takes ages to find from your description using things
like
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fs *.dta
foreach file in `r(files)'{
di "`file'"
describe using `file',s
}
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And inspecting the resulting log for your vars...
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Burak Darbaz
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 8:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: STATA 10 bug? variables disappearing with reshape wide
Hello, i just started using STATA 10 in Vista
I was trying a couple of exercises from Christopher F. Baum's book: "An
Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata" by referring to his do
files.
here is the dataset:
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
year | 77 1990 3.183014 1985 1995
packpc | 77 87.16241 21.63518 49.2722 141.9558
avgprs | 77 161.4092 36.29128 97.03333 239.1093
stateid | 77 24.42857 16.77281 3 45
incpc | 77 18.05913 3.505946 11.64714 25.80803
and its description:
obs: 77
vars: 5 9 Jun 2006 14:07
size: 2,156 (99.9% of memory free)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
year float %9.0g
packpc float %9.0g packs per capita = packs/pop
avgprs float %9.0g average price during fiscal
year, including sales taxes
stateid long %8.0g stateid
incpc float %9.0g
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
When i type in the command as he does in the do file once in a hundred time
it worked, and gave me the following result, so i saved instantenously:
. reshape wide packpc avgprs incpc, i(stateid) j(year)
(note: j = 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995)
Data long -> wide
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
Number of obs. 77 -> 7
Number of variables 5 -> 23
j variable (11 values) year -> (dropped)
xij variables:
packpc -> packpc1985 packpc1986 ...
packpc1995
avgprs -> avgprs1985 avgprs1986 ...
avgprs1995
incpc -> incpc1985 incpc1986 ...
incpc1995
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
But under normal circumstances;
. reshape wide packpc avgprs incpc, i(stateid) j(year)
(note: j = 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995)
variable stateid not found
this is the message i get.
I observed that normally, when i get the error message, the data name that i
am working is displayed next to STATA 10.00 such as: STATA 10.00 - C:
blablablablab\cigconsumpw.dta
but at the one time it worked the display was such that: - STATA 10.00 - C:
blablablablab\temp\blalal.tmp
Now, can anybody help me to make this work non-stochastically?
Thanks
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