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Re: st: "stacking" a variable ?


From   "Thomas, Anthony" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: "stacking" a variable ?
Date   Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:28:28 -0500

Hi Nick,

You can try using Stata's subscript notation "_n":

replace q2 = q1[4] if _n == 1
replace q2 = q1[5] if _n == 2

*** where 4 and 5 are the observation number of what you want to move in q1

and so on. Of course it would be smarter to implement this in a loop
if possible.

Hope that helps,

Anthony

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Nick Bornschein
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after some problems with my data, I have a final question to deal with them. Imagine the following example:
>
> clear
> input q1 q2
> 2.05 .
> 3.01 .
> 0.75 .
> . 1.99
> . 1.86
> . 0.44
> end
>
> How do I "move" column q2 upwards, so that finally 1.99 is in the same line as 2.05 in the first row, 1.86 is besides 3.01 and so on.
>
> Thanks a lot
> -Nick
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