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st: RE: tempvar


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: tempvar
Date   Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:11:04 +0100

If they are worth keeping, -generate- them as permanent
variables. 

Otherwise, to make them more intelligible to the user, 
attach variable labels to them and use the variable 
labels in displays. Renaming is, I guess, not what
you should be thinking of here. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Vera Troeger
 
> I have defined temporary variables (tempvar) in a program. Those temp 
> variables are subsequently used in different etimations. In the stata 
> estimation output they are then named automatically  _000003 
> and _000004.
> I would like to rename them, so that the user of the program 
> knows what they are meaning.

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