Hi,
You cannot "save" the label interactively. You have to put them in your
do-file. If they are a long list, use #delimit (check help if you didn't
know it). An example I use to lable province codes with province names for
Vietnam:
# delimit ;
label define prov_lab
101 "Ha Noi"
103 "Hai Phong"
105 "Ha Tay"
107 "Hai Duong"
109 "Hung Yen"
111 "Ha Nam"
113 "Nam Dinh"
115 "Thai Binh"
117 "Ninh Binh"
201 "Ha Giang"
203 "Cao Bang" ;
#delimit cr
label values prov_id prov_lab
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of buddyb
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 11:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: How to assign value labels to several variables at once? -
new problem
HI everyone, and thanks for your help.
I got the foreach command to work - and everything is great....but now...my
label stop showing up...I'm thinking I'm limited to how large my label
database can be or something? I don't know - I've been saving my work like
mad, so it's not that I didn't save it - my label for the last part of my
databased just aren't appearing??
Any ideas?
Buddy
--- Joseph Coveney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Buddy wrote:
>
> Hi Neil, and thanks for your help...Using Joseph's syntax....
>
> . for each var of varlist q33cmplx q33time q33satis { I get
> incorrect syntax....
>
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
>
> Using the other example:
>
> . local vars " q33cmplx q33time q33satis"
>
> . foreach v of local var {
> 2. label values `v' EXPlabel
> 3. }
>
> I don't get an error message, but my values are not labeled. I am
> checking the programming, user's guide, etc....but there is not an
> example of labeling multiple variables with the same value.
>
> Anyways, any help you can offer is appreciated.
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
>
> Again, as Neil mentioned, the *for* and *each* are combined into one
> word, *foreach*.
>
> It's difficult to tell from what you've shown why your variables are
> not labeled in the second example. Be sure that the label EXPlabel
> contains labels corresponding to the values present in the dataset.
> If there is no correspondence, then there won't be any labeling.
>
> Follow the example below, which mimics your second example, in order
> to see where things might have gone awry. I haven't shown it, but
> wildcards are permitted in the varlist, so that
>
> foreach var of varlist q33* {
>
> may be substituted for the loop's opening line, if none of the names
> of the variables that you do not desire to apply value labels to begin
> with the stub.
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
> . clear
>
> . set more off
>
> . set seed `=date("2006-06-12", "ymd")'
>
> . set obs 3
> obs was 0, now 3
>
> . local variable_list q33cmplx q33time q33satis
>
> . foreach var of local variable_list {
> 2. generate byte `var' = floor(uniform() * 4)
> 3. replace `var' = .m if !`var'
> 4. }
> (0 real changes made)
> (0 real changes made)
> (1 real change made, 1 to missing)
>
> . list, noobs
>
> +-------------------------------+
> | q33cmplx q33time q33satis |
> |-------------------------------|
> | 1 1 .m |
> | 2 1 1 |
> | 3 2 3 |
> +-------------------------------+
>
> . *
> . * Begin here
> . *
> . label define EXPlabel 1 One 2 Two 3 Three .m Missing
>
> . local variable_list " q33cmplx q33time q33satis"
>
> . foreach var of local variable_list {
> 2. label values `var' EXPlabel
> 3. }
>
> . list, noobs
>
> +-------------------------------+
> | q33cmplx q33time q33satis |
> |-------------------------------|
> | One One Missing |
> | Two One One |
> | Three Two Three |
> +-------------------------------+
>
>
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