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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Stacking variables |
| Date | Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:34:00 +0000 |
A different comment is that, on this information, -reshape- might be a
better solution than -stack-.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com
On 16 December 2013 13:06, daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@gmail.com> wrote:
> I stopped reading at
>
> foreach var of PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55{
>
> Read the help file for -foreach- to learn that
> PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55 is, of course, not a legal list
> type. You probably want
>
> foreach var of var PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55 {
>
> Also note that there should be a space between PreturnoverEvent55 and
> the brace (i.e. {). There might be more errors in the code, but I
> guess you should be able to catch them, reading the respective help
> files caerfully.
>
> Best
> Daniel
>
> --
> Dear All
> [...] I wrote the code below but for some 'invalid syntax' error it didn't work.
>
> gen PreEventTurnover=.
> foreach var of PreturnoverEvent1-PreturnoverEvent55{
> local first=((real(substr("`var'",17,2))*371)-370)
> local last=(real(substr("`var'",17,2))*371)
> local c=1
> forvalues d=`first'(1)`last'{
> replace PreEventTurnover= `var'[`c'] in `d'
> local c=`c'+1
> }
> }
>
> [...]
> Can anyone help?
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