Re: st: RE: Saving the "j" values in a local after reshape

[Davide Cantoni <davide.cantoni@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Nick. I should have known that.

In fact, I just need levelsof, as I can use the local after the
-reshape- command. But thanks also for the suggestion on how to
recover such a list after having reshaped.

Davide

On 1 March 2012 17:39, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Before the -reshape-
>
> levelsof year, local(levels)
>
> (In the current Facebook-free-copy-of-Stata-to-be-given-away-extravaganza-votefest, a few people named -levelsof- as their favourite Stata command!)
>
> After the -reshape-
>
> unab years : year*
> local years : subinstr local years "year" "", all
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Davide Cantoni
>
> when using -reshape-, is there any way to save the levels of the "j" variable?
>
> To make my question clearer: a typical -reshape- command will return the output
>
>  *** begin output
>
> . reshape wide inc, i(id) j(year)
> (note: j = 1980 1982 1983 1987)
>
> Data                               wide   ->   long
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *** end output
>
> So the question is: can this list of numbers (in the example above,
> "1980 1982 1983 1987") be saved as a local, for future use?
>
>
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