Zhehui Luo
> Some Stata commands (eg., regress, ds) produce shortened
> variable names if
> the variable name is longer than 8 characters. But some
> commands (eg., sum)
> do not so that. Is there a way of forcing Stata not to
> abbreviate variable
> names in the former, especially ds command?
You can always program your own. For example,
this never abbreviates and writes names in
40-column fields:
program def zlds
version 7
syntax [varlist]
local nvars : word count `varlist'
tokenize `varlist'
foreach i of num 1(2)`nvars' {
local j = `i' + 1
di "{txt}``i''{col 40}``j''"
}
end
Another partial answer to this is to check out -ds3- from
SSC, offered as one upward-compatible extension
of -ds2-. -ds3- has a -cols()- option which allows
some control over the degree of abbreviation.
Nick
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