One solution here is to use -label save-
before the append and then use the
created .do file afterwards.
Nick
[email protected]
orozco
> I have 2 files with the same variables "name" and "color". Variable
> "color" is an integer variable with a label, but the label is
> defined in each file, thus depending on the values of the variable
> "color" existing on each file. The problem is just that when I
> want to append the 2 files, I lose the labels of the values
> which are on the file I want to append, but which are not on the
> master data. I don't know how to do to append some label to the
> first label...maybe there is an easy way to do so (except to
> generate only one label first because I have a lot of files with
> the same variable already labelled)
>
> Let's have an example :
>
> data1 :
> list
> +-----------------+
> | name color |
> |-----------------|
> 1. | georges blue |
> 2. | robert red |
> 3. | simone blue |
> +-----------------+
> but in fact, variable color has a label :
> . label list
> typocolor:
> 1 blue
> 2 red
>
> data2 :
> list
> +------------------+
> | name color |
> |------------------|
> 1. | alfred red |
> 2. | monique yellow |
> +------------------+
> . label list
> typocolor:
> 2 red
> 3 yellow
>
> And when I do (on data1) "append using data2", I have :
> . list
> +-----------------+
> | name color |
> |-----------------|
> 1. | georges blue |
> 2. | robert red |
> 3. | simone blue |
> 4. | alfred red |
> 5. | monique 3 |
> +-----------------+
> . label list
> typocolor:
> 1 blue
> 2 red
>
> The value "3" which is not in data1 has no label after the append
> command. Someone has an idea?
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