Re: st: still for Stata 14: a new cases function complementing cond and recode

[William Buchanan <william@williambuchanan.net>]

So what would you do in the case where you needed to assign multiple values to a single value?  From the recode help file:

webuse fullauto, clear
recode rep77 rep78 (1 2 = 1 "Below average") (3 = 2 Average) (4 5 = 3 "Above average"), pre(new) label(newrep)

And changing the way that you interact with the code (e.g., the command/function that you call) does not necessarily imply restructuring the architecture of the underlying program, so there is no reason that this would be any faster/slower than what is already in place.  So I fail to see how your suggestion would render "the ridiculously slow -recode- command obsolete." 


Billy
On Sep 12, 2013, at 4:29 PM, László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com> wrote:

> It would be nice to have a "cases" function built in, instead of
> resorting to nested conds as the only, unpopular alternative to many
> lines of "replace if"s following an initial -gen-. Way too many
> processor hours are wasted worldwide on not having a function like
> -recode()- but only slightly complicated:
> cases(condition1,value1,condition2,value2,…,value_if_none_true)
> 
> Btw, this would also make the ridiculously slow -recode- command obsolete.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Laszlo
> 
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