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Re: st: Keep data according to one data file's varlist
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Zhangqunzi <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Keep data according to one data file's varlist
Date
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 00:02:00 +0100
Thanks a lot !
I will implement but will this approach gives me the new data set with the reduced varlist ?
I mean I can also keep the observations according to the reduced varlist, right?
在 Nov 7, 2012，11:50 PM，"Sarah Edgington" <[email protected]> 写道：
> See -help ds- for info on getting the list of the variables in your data.
>
> Are there any variables in your second data file that do not exist in the
> first? If there aren't you could do something like:
>
> use data2, clear
> ds
> use data1, clear
> keep `r(varlist)'
>
> If there are variables in data2 that don't exist in data1 this example will
> produce errors, but if data2 is a strict subset of the variables of the
> first file it should be fine.
>
> -Sarah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.
> harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Zhangqunzi
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 2:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Keep data according to one data file's varlist
>
> Actually, I want to make the two big data sets have the same variable name
> list which is from the second file. Some variables in data file 1 need to be
> dropped.
>
> I think I should creat a name list from data 2 then select the data from
> data 1 according to this data 2 name list.
>
> Can u tell me how to code in Stata?
> Thanks
>
> 在 Nov 7, 2012，7:46 PM，Nick Cox <[email protected]> 写道：
>
>> Sounds like
>>
>> . drop var2 var4
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Zhangqunzi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>>> I have two dta files, first one with variables : var 1 2 3 4 5 Second
>>> one with
>>> Variables: vart 1 3 5
>>>
>>> As their names.
>>>
>>> Now I would like to drop the extra variables in data file 1 which are var
> 2 4.
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