Re: st: joining strings

[Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com>]

clear*
input id     str1   stringvar
1          x
1          y
1          z
2          a
3          d
4          g
4          h

end

gen str244 foo = ""
forv i = 1/100 {
local a "`a' stringvar[`i']"
}
local b: subinstr local a " " "+", all
local c: subinstr local b "+" ""
bys id: replace foo = `c'
compress
l


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Kevin McConeghy
<kevinmcconeghy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello users,
>
> I have a dataset with ~2.2 mill obs like so:
>
> obs
> id        stringvar    + other variables
> 1          x
> 1          y
> 1          z
> 2          a
> 3          d
> 4          g
> 4          h
>
> I was trying to combine the stringvar to collapse and make id a unique
> key, like so:
>
> id         stringvar
> 1          xyz
> 2          a
> 3          d
> 4          gh
>
> with the following code:
>
> quietly by id: gen x_ = cond(_N==1,0,_n)
> egen x = concat(x_), p(_)
> drop x_
>
> reshape wide stringvar, i(id) j(x) string
> egen str244 all_stringvar=concat(x1, x2, x3....)
>
> Which worked for one quarter of data, but it takes a lot of computer
> power with 1.9 obs and up to 100 unique string var for 1 obs
> My computer wont calculate it for the whole dataset because it runs
> out of memory
>
> Is there some way to skip the reshape step and join string variables
> by specifying the same id?:
> egen stringvar_all = concat(stringvar), by id
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Kevin
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