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Re: st: use of tempfile
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: use of tempfile
Date
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:23:51 +0100
Sorry, I am bowing out of this one. My last point was that I really
don't see why you want the data structure you seek and that's still
true as far as I am concerned. Showing me yet more code doesn't answer
any of my questions.
Nick
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Prakash Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nick I beg to differ you
> I have done using stata programming what I intend to do but then I
> thought why to have unnecessarily the data file which I do not want. I
> ma definite about reshape and separate would not do good.
>
> Let me try final time to explain what I am interested in doing.
>
> suppose we use this sales1.data and do
>
> use sales1.dta, clear
> keep if sate_code==1
> ren sate_code sate_code1
> ren exp_val exp_val1
> ren sales_val sales_val1
> save sales1_1.data, replace
> .
> .
> .
> use sales1.dta, clear
> keep if sate_code==20
> ren sate_code sate_code20
> ren exp_val exp_val20
> ren sales_val sales_val20
> save sales1_20.dta, replace
>
> use sales1_1.data, clear
> merge common_id using sales1_2.dta
> save sales1_1_2.dta
> .
> .
> .
> use sales1_1_19.data, clear
> merge common_id using sales1_20.dta
> save sales1_1_20.dta
>
> But this way I have 40 data file but what I am trying to in the code
> posted in first mail is to have only one file finaly i.e.
> sales1_1_20.dta
>
> Thanks
> Prakash
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