Re: st: labels as values of a string variable

["R.E. De Hoyos" <redeho@hotmail.com>]

James,

Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately it didn't work. The value that I 
am trying to assign is a string containing space, e.g. "Gross foreign direct 
investment (% of GDP)". Therefore I have to include the quotation marks 
(""). In fact the coding I send in my previous email was assigning the 
string values to the local macros, the problem was when I tried to label the 
variables using those local macros.

Best,

Rafa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Cui" <james.cui@med.monash.edu.au>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: st: labels as values of a string variable



> If you change
> local label`i' = "string[_n]"
> to
> local label`i' = string[_n]
> it should work.
> The latter assigns the value of string[_n] to label`i'.
>
> James.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R.E. De Hoyos" <redeho@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 2, 2005 6:54 pm
> Subject: st: labels as values of a string variable
>
> > I want to attach labels to a group of variables (varlist).
> >
> > The labels that I want to use for each variable are available as
> > observations in one of the variables (string). I tried the following:
> >
> > levels string, local(labels)
> > tokenize `lables'
> >
> > * An error occurred because the string values contained spaces.
> > Therefore I
> > tried:
> >
> > egen id = group(string)    //20 groups
> > local i=1
> > while `i'<21 {
> >    preserve
> >    keep if id==`i'
> >    local label`i' = "string[_n]"
> >    local i = `i'+1
> >    restore
> > }
> >
> > When I used -di `label1'- the label names where correctly
> > displayed. However
> > when I tried to attached them to the variables using -label var- :
> >
> > label var var1 "`label1'"
> >
> > The label attached was "string[_n]" and not the value of it.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Rafa
> >
> > ________________________
> > R.E. De Hoyos
> > Faculty of Economics
> > University of Cambridge
> > CB3 9DE, UK
> > www.econ.cam.ac.uk/phd/red29
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