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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: rename middle parts of variables |
| Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:05:21 +0000 |
As Hewan found out, Richard has good taste but mis-remembered where -renvars- comes from.
The -renvars- files are all associated with the Stata Journal and its predecessor the Stata Technical Bulletin. If interested, please find the original write-up in STB-60 and the code files in the resources for SJ 5-1.
SJ-5-4 dm88_1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Software update for renvars
(help renvars if installed) . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox and J. Weesie
Q4/05 SJ 5(4):607
trimend() option added and help file updated
STB-60 dm88 . . . . . . . . Renaming variables, multiply and systematically
(help renvars if installed) . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox and J. Weesie
3/01 pp.4--6; STB Reprints Vol 10, pp.41--44
renames variables by changing prefixes, postfixes, substrings,
or as specified by a user supplied rule
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Hewan Belay
Great, thank you! I only used renvars to rename vars as in
renvars x y \ a b
I didn't know about all its other wonderful functions!
--- On Mon, 2/7/11, Richard Goldstein
> download -renvars- from ssc (-ssc install renvars-)
> On 2/7/11 9:13 AM, Hewan Belay wrote:
> I want to rename
> parts of variables; for example, I want to rename any part
> of a variable that is “gdp” to “inc”. So the command
> I’m looking for, once executed, would rename the variable
> algergdppur to algerincpur, and gdp2004 to inc2004, and
> turkey_gdp to turkey_inc. That is, the part of the variable
> I want to rename could show up anywhere in the variable: at
> the beginning, middle, or end. If there are a large number
> of variables, doing –rename- won’t do. Nor can I use
> renpfix or rensfix as these are only for cases where the
> part to be renamed is at the beginning or end (most of my
> cases are in the middle). Is there any straightforward way
> to do this?
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