[Gretl-users] stata REPLACE command

[Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza]

El Wednesday 22 October 2008 07:52:02 Irwin, James R escribió:
> Hi folks. What is the GRETL translation of the command "REPLACE ... IF"
> in STATA?
>
> Specifically, in STATA I would use        REPLACE W=. IF L==0      to
> change my data in STATA (making the variable W missing if the variable L
> is zero).
>
> Messing around in GRETL I have come up with the following 3 lines:
>
> smpl L=0 --restrict
> genr W=NA
> smpl --full
>
> Is there a simpler/briefer way to do this is GRETL? Maybe using IF?
> Thanks for any suggestions -- jim irwin (economic historian, moving from
> STATA to GRETL).

May be the following command works as you want:

series W=W*misszero(L)/L



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