st: RE: Problem with -reshape- and value labels

[Clyde Schechter <cschecht@aecom.yu.edu>]

Thanks to Roger Newson for his suggestion to use his -descsave- 
package.  It nearly did the trick.  What I had neglected to mention 
in my description of the problem is that some of the resp variables 
in the real data set had no label at all, and needed to similarly be 
restored in that way.  It appears that descsave does not cover 
explicitly deal with unlabeled variables.  But that was very easy to fix:

tempfile formatting
descsave, dofile(`formatting')
reshape wide resp, i(seq) j(item)
<snip>
do stuff
<end snip>
reshape long
label values resp*	// ADDITIONAL LINE NEEDED TO WIPE OUT UNWANTED VALUE LABELS
run `formatting'

Thanks so much for authoring this very useful package--I can envision 
doing a lot with it.  And, of course, for solving my immediate problem.

Clyde Schechter
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY, USA

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