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Re: st:looping over 41 months over 3 full years(12 months each) and a half year (5 months)
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Amanda Fu <[email protected]>
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Re: st:looping over 41 months over 3 full years(12 months each) and a half year (5 months)
Date
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:26:01 -0400
Dear Mr. Nix,
Thank you, Mr Nix for your suggestion. It helped a lot.
I think I will go for the reshaping. Just now I sent out my request
for your article on looping tips through library. I will read it when
I receive it.
Best,
Amanda
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> An overall comment is that this kind of structure is usually more awkward, so do consider a -reshape-.
>
> This is (untested) code intended to do what you want.
>
> local m = 0
> local year = 1999
> forval i = 1/41 {
> local m = cond(`m' == 12, 1, `m' + 1)
> local year = `year' + (`m' == 1)
> local M : di %02.0f `m'
> rename var`i' var`M'_`year'
> }
>
> See also
>
> SJ-10-1 pr0051 . . . . . . . . . . . . Stata tip 85: Looping over nonintegers
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
> Q1/10 SJ 10(1):160--163 (no commands)
> tip on using forvalues to loop over numbers
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
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