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Re: st: How to rename value label names to match variable names?
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Anna Reimondos <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to rename value label names to match variable names?
Date
Sun, 16 May 2010 16:59:58 +1000
Thank you very much Tirthankar!
That is exactly what I was looking for.
Cheers
Anna
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
<[email protected]> wrote:
> You can easily change the name of the value label of a variable after
> you have renamed the variable, to match the new variable name, using
> Nick Cox's -labmask- utility, part of the -labutil- package (SSC):
> ***********************************
> sysuse auto
> des
> labmask foreign, values(foreign)
> des
> ***********************************
>
> T
>
>
> 2010/5/16 Anna Reimondos <[email protected]>:
>> Hello,
>> And thank you both for your suggestions. I find it a bit hard to
>> articulate problems sometimes when it comes to variable names, value
>> names and value labels so my question was perhaps not very clear.
>>
>> I would like to rename the name of the labels rather than the names of
>> the variables.
>>
>> For example
>> sysuse, auto
>> des
>>
>> *Here I would want the value label called 'origin' to change to be
>> called 'foreign' to match the name of the variable name it is attached
>> to.
>>
>> As Phillip pointed out this is not necessary thing do to, but I must
>> do this because I am cleaning a survey dataset that has very
>> particular rules about how the variable names and value labels are
>> defined and they have asked me to do this....
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Tim Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm not 100% certain what you are asking but if you want to relabel
>>> the newly generated variables so that the labels are the same as the
>>> new variable names, this should work:
>>>
>>>
>>> sysuse auto.dta, clear
>>> rename make make1
>>> rename price price1
>>> desc make1 price1
>>> foreach var of varlist make1 price1 {
>>> label variable `var' "`var'"
>>> }
>>> desc make1 price1
>>>
>>>
>>> storage display value
>>> variable name type format label variable label
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> make1 str18 %-18s make1
>>> price1 int %8.0gc price1
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Anna Reimondos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> The following problem has me stumped.
>>>> I have a dataset with variables which have been labelled with value
>>>> labels. Currently the variables are names as "a1, a2, a3" etc, and I
>>>> need to rename all my variables so that they are listed as "V1, V2,
>>>> V3" etc. This I can easily do. The problem is that I also need to
>>>> rename all the value label names to match the new variable names.
>>>>
>>>> For example, the current situation is:
>>>>
>>>> varname label name
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> a1 a1
>>>> a2 a2
>>>> a3 yesno
>>>> a4 gender
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> What I need to have is:
>>>>
>>>> varname label name
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> V1 V1
>>>> V2 V2
>>>> V3 V3
>>>> V4 V4
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can rename the label names
>>>> to match the variable names? I found a number of similar questions on
>>>> Statalist but most seem to be going the other way (i.e from renaming
>>>> variables to match the label names)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks heaps
>>>> Anna
>>>>
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