I have the following data:
id tests testvalue
1 A 4
1 B 5
1 C 3
1 D 3
2 A 3
2 B 3
3 C 3
3 D 4
4 A 3
4 B 5
4 A 1
4 B 3
I would like to change the above long data format into following wide data.
id testA testB testC testD index
1 4 5 3 3 1
2 3 3 . . 2
3 . . 3 4 3
4 3 5 . . 4
4 1 3 . . 5
I am trying
reshape wide testvalue, i(id) j(tests)
It gives error because there are no unique values within tests.
What would be the solution to this problem?
You need to create an extra identifier to make replicates distinguishable.
clear
input id str1 tests testvalue
1 A 4
1 B 5
1 C 3
1 D 3
2 A 3
2 B 3
3 C 3
3 D 4
4 A 3
4 B 5
4 A 1
4 B 3
end
bysort id tests: gen replicate = _n
reshape wide testvalue, i(id replicate) j(tests) string
See also here for documentation.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28839986/how-to-reshape-long-to-wide-data-in-stata