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Re: st: How do I create a new observation that is the sum of two observations?


From   Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: How do I create a new observation that is the sum of two observations?
Date   Sat, 1 May 2010 16:56:56 -0400

Try this code.  You have to decide what to do about string variables.
Steve
**************************CODE BEGINS**************************
sysuse auto,clear
gen id= _n
preserve
drop if inlist(id,1,2)
tempfile t1
save `t1'
restore
keep if inlist(id,1,2)
ds, has(type numeric)
foreach v in `r(varlist)'{
replace `v'= sum(`v')
}
keep if _n==_N
list
**replace id = ??
append using `t1'
sum
***************************CODE ENDS***************************

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Aiyar, Shekhar
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a dataset with about 200 observations (rows) and 1000 variables (columns). I want to add two of those observations (rows) together to create a new observation. As far as I can make out, gen and egen can only be used to create new variables, not new observations. Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Shekhar
>
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