I would like to loop through a number of csv
files in order to change the format of date variables and generate graphs each with a title that is simply the name of the respective file.
Here is an example of one of the csv
files created using dataex
:
clear
input str32 eventname str10 scrapedate float(average thpercentile v5 v6)
"EventName" "2015-12-15" 136.9255 83.2 104.875 148.75
"EventName" "2015-12-16" 130.4555 78.55 99 138.22
"EventName" "2015-12-17" 123.66705 72.7 90.25 131.2
"EventName" "2015-12-18" 116.45757 64.855 78.55 119.5
"EventName" "2015-12-19" 108.63446 60.56333 72.7 119.07333
"EventName" "2015-12-20" 94.97125 55.15 69.77 112.48
end
The files are inside the "I:\Games CSVs"
directory and they are all in csv
format. I have ensured that the variable names in all files are the same.
I want to take each file, convert the scrapedate
from a string to a date format. I then want to plot four lines represented by four variables average
, thpercentile
, v5
, v6
and on the y-axis, ScrapeDate
.
So far, based on a Google Search, I tried the code below:
local files : dir "I:\Games CSVs" files "*.csv"
cd "I:\Games CSVs"
foreach file in `files' {
insheet using `file', comma clear
/* Convert string to date format */
gen ScrapeDate = date(scrapedate, "YMD")
format ScrapeDate %td #Convert string to date format
/* X Axis: price, Y Axis: ScrapeDate; Plotting, averages, 25th, 50th and 75th percentile */
line average thpercentile v5 v6 ScrapeDate, legend(size(medsmall))
}
The above code is contained in a do
file. The problem is that when I do, File -> Do.. -> filename.do
, I don't see any graphs, it simply shows in my window as end of do file
. I do not see the graphs!
I'm hoping my code isn't wrong or anything because on the left panel, the do "path/filename.do"
appears red in color. I have removed all blank lines in the do
files, it has no semicolon contrary to what the Google Search answer had (the answer had semicolons).
I want to be able to access the graphs! But where are they stored?
I was able to somewhat accomplish what i wanted using just one file with the following code:
insheet using "I:\Games CSVs\oneofthecsvfiles.csv"
gen ScrapeDate = date(scrapedate, "YMD")
format ScrapeDate %td
line average thpercentile v5 v6 ScrapeDate, legend(size(medsmall))
Finally, the above code converts the date variable in numeric but changes the format from 2015-12-17
originally to 17dec2015
.
Is there a way to get this to be 2015/12/17
or 2015-12-17
?