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| From | Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Renaming variables |
| Date | Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:15 +0100 |
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:59 AM, BAIJER Jan 212040 <jan.baijer@cea.fr> wrote: > Hello Stata, > > I have a tab delimited text file that I would like to work on using Stata. This file has a header that I'd like to eliminate; line 9 of the file contains variable names, lines 10 and further contain the observations. > > I'd like to "transform" my datafile from within Stata, by dropping the first 8 lines, and renaming the variables correctly. There must be a smart way of doing this ?! I could not find out how to get rid of the generic variable names, and instruct Stata to use the information on a given (first) line of the file for variable names. > > Can you help me out ?! You need to write a dictionary that defines the structure of the file you wish to read and use -man infile2- for details and also [U] 21.2.5 If the dataset is formatted and the formatting is significant Neil -- “Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.” - Konrad Lorenz Email - nshephard@gmail.com Website - http://kimura.no-ip.org/ Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/