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Re: st: Looping with merge


From   Adam Guerrero <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Looping with merge
Date   Mon, 13 May 2013 13:21:59 -0400

Awesome!  Thanks so much for such a fast, helpful response, Nick!

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> For a recent thread centred on the same problem -- a single loop over
> two or more lists being wrongly written as a multiple loop -- start
> with
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-03/msg00983.html
>
> including the reference cited therein.
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 13 May 2013 15:49, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's one loop, not two.
>>
>> local files zip_pov p15_zip p37_zip
>> local vars povrate permcf perbachelor
>>
>> forval i = 1/3 {
>>      local f : word `i' of `files'
>>      local v : word `i' of `vars'
>>      merge m:1 zip_num using `f', keepusing(`v')
>>      drop if _merge==2
>>      drop _merge
>> }
>>
>> OR
>>
>> forval i = 1/3 {
>>      local f : word `i' of zip_pov p15_zip p37_zip
>>      local v : word `i' of povrate permcf perbachelor
>>      merge m:1 zip_num using `f', keepusing(`v')
>>      drop if _merge==2
>>      drop _merge
>> }
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On 13 May 2013 15:42, Adam Guerrero <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to write a loop for the following lines of code
>>>
>>> merge m:1 zip_num using zip_pov.dta, keepusing(povrate)
>>> drop if _merge==2
>>> drop _merge
>>> merge m:1 zip_num using p15_zip.dta, keepusing(permcf)
>>> drop if _merge==2
>>> drop _merge
>>> merge m:1 zip_num using p37_zip.dta, keepusing(perbachelor)
>>> drop if _merge==2
>>> drop _merge
>>>
>>> This is what, but has not been working
>>>
>>> foreach file in zip_pov.dta p15_zip.dta p37_zip.dta {
>>> foreach var of varlist "povrate" "permcf" "perbachelor" {
>>> merge m:1 zip_num using `file', keepusing(`var')
>>> drop if _merge==2
>>> drop _merge
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
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