Re: st: RE: recode & set old label value

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

thank you very much for the hint!

kind regards,

Andrea

On Jul 10, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Nick Cox wrote:

> -labmask- allows you to assign the values -- or optionally, and  
> suitably
> for your problem, the corresponding value labels  -- of one variable  
> to
> be the value labels of another.
>
> -labmask- has been part of -labutil- on SSC for a while:
>
> labutil from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/l
>    'LABUTIL': modules for managing value and variable labels / labcopy
> copies
>    value labels, or swaps them around. labdel deletes / them.  lablog
> defines
>    value labels for values which are base 10 / logarithms containing
> the
>    antilogged values. labcd defines value / labels in which decimal
> points
>
> It has just been discussed more formally for its uses in graphics:
>
> SJ-8-2  gr0034  . . . . . . . . . .  Speaking Stata: Between tables  
> and
> graphs
>        (help labmask, seqvar if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . .  N.
> J. Cox
>        Q2/08   SJ 8(2):269--289
>        outlines techniques for producing table-like graphs
>
> and it has been given puffs by the good people at UCLA:
>
> FAQ     .  How to assign the val. of a var. as the val. labels of
> another var.
>        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  UCLA Academic Technology
> Services
>        5/08    http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/labmask.htm
>
> Example . Code frag.: Hazard ratio of baseline char. by a dichotomous
> variable
>        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  UCLA Academic Technology
> Services
>        12/06   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/code/display_hr.htm
>
> Thus, various -search-es for stuff on labels would have pointed you
> towards it.
>
> It is best to install from the Stata Journal website. That way, you  
> get
> another utility -seqvar- as part of a 2-for-1 offer. Start with
>
> . net sj 8-2 gr0034
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Andrea Bennett
>
> In my case I have to merge two data sets while both of them contain a
> ID variable which is numerical but has label values applied. Now,
> there is an error in the coding for one data set resulting in a shift
> of 10 in the ID variable, e.g. ID in data set 1 is 781 while ID in
> data set 2 is 791. Now, it's easy to change the coding but is there a
> way to automatically re-apply the correct label values after having
> changed the ID coding?
>
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