Re: st: RE: UPDATE: once again -reshape- and labels

[Andrea Bennett <mac.stata@gmail.com>]

Dear Thomas,

I'm sorry but your suggestion does not work. As - hopefully clear to  
all - I have described, it is about temporarily saving the label for  
e.g. Ax1 and then - after reshape long - apply the label of Ax1 to Ax.  
This should be automated for all variables I want to reshape so that I  
won't have to change the labels manually.

But thanks for the try!

Andrea


On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:04 PM, Steichen, Thomas J. wrote:


> In your last foreach loop:
>
> foreach v of var `rshp' {
>        label variable `v' "`l`lrshp''"
> }
>
> You are iterating thru values of `rshp' but are selecting labels from
> something called `l`lrshp''.
>
> I suspect that something should be `l`rshp''.
>
> (i.e., you have the "l" in there twice.)
>
> -----------------------------------
> Thomas J. Steichen
> steicht@rjrt.com
> -----------------------------------
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu 
> ] On Behalf Of Andrea Bennett
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:06 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: UPDATE: once again -reshape- and labels
>
> Dear Statalisters,
>
> So with a more detailed question again (see previous post by me). The
> data set contains these variables: id, Ax1-Ax10, Bx1-Bx10, Cx1-Cx10.
> Every group (e.g. Ax1-Ax10) has the very same label which should be
> applied to the new variables after reshape. This is the code I got so
> far:
>
> /* store label of each group of variables */
> local lrshp "Ax1 Bx1 Cx1"
>
> foreach v of var `lrshp' {
>        local l`v' : variable label `v'
> }
>
> /* reshape */
> local rshp "Ax Bx Cx"
> quietly reshape long `rshp', i(id) j(wave) /* giving me a data set
> with the variables: id, Ax, Bx, Cx, wave */
>
> /* set label */
> foreach v of var `rshp' {
>        label variable `v' "`l`lrshp''"
> }
>
>
> This way, Ax gets the correct label but Bx and Cx get the label of Ax.
> I seem to do something wrong when iterating at the end. I just really
> don't see the point.
>
> Many thanks for the consideration,
>
> Andrea
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