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Re: st: Wishlist for Stata 13
From
Richard Goldstein <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Wishlist for Stata 13
Date
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:56:15 -0500
Thank you -- I will certainly try these and report issues, if any
Rich
On 1/30/13 8:50 AM, Maarten Buis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Richard Goldstein wrote:
>> a big (to me) caveat to the -defv- solution (and also to Maarten Buis'
>> solution from today): it does not work with -egen- and it does not work
>> with -by-
>
> Here are the solutions:
>
> *! version 1.0.0 30Jan2013 MLB
> program define myegen, byable(onecall)
> if "`_byvars'" != "" {
> local byby "by `_byvars' : "
> }
> `byby'egen `0'
>
> // find the name of variable
> gettoken x rest : 0
> local type "byte int long float double"
> if `: list x in type' {
> gettoken x : rest
> }
> gettoken x : x, parse("=")
>
> // add note
> note `x' : `byby'egen `0'
> end
>
> *! version 1.0.0 30Jan2013 MLB
> program define mygen, byable(onecall)
> if "`_byvars'" != "" {
> local byby "by `_byvars' : "
> }
> `byby'generate `0'
>
> // find the name of variable
> gettoken x rest : 0
> local type "byte int long float double"
> if `: list x in type' {
> gettoken x : rest
> }
> gettoken x : x, parse("=")
> gettoken x : x, parse(":")
>
> // add note
> note `x' : `byby'generate `0'
> end
>
> *! version 1.0.0 30Jan2013 MLB
> program define myreplace, byable(onecall)
> if "`_byvars'" != "" {
> local byby "by `_byvars' : "
> }
> `byby'replace `0'
>
> // find the name of variable
> gettoken x rest : 0
> local type "byte int long float double"
> if `: list x in type' {
> gettoken x : rest
> }
> gettoken x : x, parse("=")
>
> // add note
> note `x' : `byby'replace `0'
> end
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
> ---------------------------------
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> Reichpietschufer 50
> 10785 Berlin
> Germany
>
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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