Re: st: Including variable labels in graph titles

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

. local mylabel : variable label myvar	

will capture the variable label from -myvar- and put
it into macro -mylabel-; you can then embed -mylabel-
in the title string.

hth,
Jeph



Dick Campbell wrote:
> I need to produce a sequence of twoway overlay graphs for a set
> of variables, say x1 x2 .... xk. Each variable has a label, e.g.
> x1 "Label for variable x1" .  I have written a do file which cycles
> through the variables nicely using a foreach command, but I want to
> include the label of the yaxis variable in the title of the variable.
> I can't seem to find a way to capture the variable label so that it
> can be embedded in the title. If there were some routine in Stata
> that returned the label in a macro I could run it quietly, recover
> the label and easily embed it in the title, but there doesn't seem to
> be one. Does anyone have any ideas as to how this might be done?
> Essentially, I want to this:
>
>  twoway (scatter mpg weight, sort), title(Scatter plot for (variable 
> label to be inserted here).)
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