Re: st: encode

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

This should automate the process suggested by David Airey (using the -make- 
variable in the auto.dta):

        qui levels make , local(vallist)

        local n : word count `vallist'
        forval i=`n'(-1)1 {
                local cval : word `i' of `vallist'
                la de mylabel `=`n'-`i'+1' `"`cval'"' , modify
        }
        encode make, gen(newmake) label(mylabel)

Of course, this could be rolled into a little program if you need to do it 
for many variables...

--Nick Winter



At 05:33 PM 12/2/2004 +0000, you wrote:

> David Airey wrote:
>
> > I can work around this question manually, but encode works in ascending
> > alphabetical order...is there a way to encode in descending
> > alphabetical order? This is because I want descending order using the
> > by_option of my graph command.
> General solution: define a value label first and force -encode- to use it.
>
> . lab def mysequence 0 "Zimmerman" 1 "Xenakis" 2 "Weill",modify
> . encode composer, gen(Composer) lab(mysequence)
>
> This is pretty tedious if you have a lot of categories, though.
>
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