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Re: st: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.
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Phil Schumm <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Reshape from long to wide and attaching Labels contained in a Variable.
Date
Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:15:32 -0500
On Aug 29, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Be that as it may, here is an answer based on my best guess for what you are trying to do:
>
>
> reshape wide amount title, i(id) j(code) string
> foreach var of varlist amount* {
> loc code = subinstr("`var'","amount","",1)
> loc tvar title`code'
> lab var `var' "`=`tvar'[1]'"
> ren `var' `code'
> drop `tvar'
> }
I forgot to mention that I'm making the following assumption prior to reshaping:
bys code: ass title==title[1]
but if this is not true, then I don't know what you're trying to do.
-- Phil
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