Re: st: question about format of labels

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

At 8:46 AM -0600 12/3/04, Rodrigo Brice�o wrote:
> Dear Statalisters. I usually work in both SPSS and STATA and I found some
> kind of interesting thing. I usually use STAT Transfer to convert the
> databases but I found that all my labels that in SPSS has a capital letter
> at the beginning are transformed to lower case labels without exception
> (lets say 1 Female, 2 Male in SPSS are transformed to 1 female 2 male in
> STATA).
> Is there a way to avoid this?

Stat/Transfer does this in an attempt to mimic 
the native style of the package to which it is 
transferring (both Stata and R/S-Plus typically 
use lower case).  You can turn this feature off 
by checking the general option titled "Preserve 
name and label case".


-- Phil

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