Renaming Dataset Columns

[Anass Wajib]

Hello,

I'm trying to change alphabet on the columns into their respective years

I've tried rename C, 1980 but gave me this error: rename oldname newname [, renumber[(#)] addnumber[(#)] sort ...], which I don't know what to make of.

Thank you for your help

[Maarten Buis]

There are a couple of problems:

The name of a variable (column) cannot be just a number, how would Stata distinguish between 1980 the variable and 1980 the number? It can be _1980 or y1980 or v1980.

The syntax is rename oldname newname, options Notice that there is no comma between oldname and newname.

So what you want is probably: rename C y1980

[Anass Wajib]

Maarten Buis That's exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much