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Re: st: Rename multiple variables
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Rename multiple variables
Date
Sat, 2 Apr 2011 18:20:30 +0100
This makes little sense to me.
Several variables must have several differemt names.
Perhaps you want to change the prefix from -v- to -year-. -renpfix-
would suffice, but -renvars- has an option for that. (-renvars- is a
user-written program from SJ; please remember to explain where such
programs you refer to come from.)
Perhaps you want to restructure the data with a -reshape-.
Nick
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:12 PM, emanuele mazzini
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have the following problem with renaming variables: I would like to
> rename variables from v2 to v58 with only one name, which is year. I
> know that I can use the renvars command, but if I type
>
> renvars v2-v58 \ year
>
> I get the following error message:
>
> lists of old and new varnames unequal in length
>
> which obviously refers to the fact that I did not specified a new name
> for all the variables. But the name would be the same for all of them,
> so the question is the following:
> is there a way to extend the command to all the variables I'm
> interested in, without typing year 58 times?
>
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