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Re: st: renaming variables from first observation
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: renaming variables from first observation
Date
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:27:49 +0100
This should work, so long as your values in the first observation are
legal variable names. It seems that they are not.
As for storing values in a macro: That is precisely what your code is
doing here, so I don't know what underlies that question.
-renvars- is by Jeroen Weesie and myself (SJ). It can't help you here.
Please show us the results of
. list var1-var14 in 1
Nick
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Abhimanyu Arora
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to rename my variables var1-var14 to the corresponding
> values from the first observation.
> I followed the post on
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-07/msg00009.html and
> modified it for my purpose.
>
> but I got this error
>
> . forvalues k = 1/14 {
> 2. local newname = var`k'[1]
> 3. ren var`k' `newname'
> 4. }
>
> Code not allowed
>
> Also is it posible to store the values of an observation in a macro?
> Perhaps I could then use Nick Cox's -renvars-?
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