Re: st: question about format of labels

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 08:46 AM 12/3/2004 -0600, 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?
From the Stat/Transfer 7 help (See the Options[1] tab - I am not sure if 
this applies to both value and variable labels or just variable labels):

Preserve Variable Name and Label Case if Possible

Stat/Transfer always follows the variable-naming rules of the output file 
type and will convert input names so that they will conform to those 
rules.  It also, by default, tries to convert labels in keeping with the 
"spirit" of the target package.  This means that for packages such as 
S-PLUS and Stata, Stat/Transfer will write out variable names and labels in 
lower case.


For S-PLUS and Stata only, if you want to override this behavior, click on 
the box to select the option Preserve Variable Name and Label Case if 
Possible and the case of your input variables will be preserved on output.



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