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Re: st: How to rename value label names to match variable names?
From
Anna Reimondos <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: How to rename value label names to match variable names?
Date
Mon, 17 May 2010 09:58:36 +1000
Thank you all for your further suggestions.
With the labmask, I had not realised that the label values were
dropped, so yes I would definitely need to use the decode option.
The labvalclone was another program I was not aware of and testing it
on my data it worked perfectly. The ds, has(vallabel)
is also good to know because initially when if was using "foreach var
of varlist _all { " to loop through the variables and was consequently
creating labels on variables such as ID or weight which did not
initially have labels.
Thank you again- as always I have learnt a lot.
Anna
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> You can also use NJC`s -labvalclone-, in combination with the -h extended_fcn-s:
>
>
> ***********
> sysuse nlsw88, clear
>
> //see initial state
> d
>
> capt which labvalclone
> if _rc ssc inst labutil
>
> //get all vars with value labels
> ds, has(vallabel)
>
> //cycle thru list and change val label name
> foreach var of varlist `r(varlist)'{
> labvalclone "`:val lab `var''" "`var'"
> la val `var' `var'
> }
>
> //see changes
> d
>
> //see whether labels are intact
> ta race
> ta occupation
> ***********
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tirthankar Chakravarty
> Sent: Sonntag, 16. Mai 2010 11:13
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: How to rename value label names to match variable names?
>
> Martin,
>
> Well-spotted. A simple fix is to use the -labmask, decode- option.
> ***********
> sysuse auto
> des
> labmask foreign, values(foreign) decode
> des
> tab foreign
> la li
> ***********
>
> T
>
> 2010/5/16 Martin Weiss <[email protected]>:
>>
>> <>
>>
>> But T, after your code the name of the -value label- has been changed, but the labels ("domestic", "foreign") are gone as well. Anna declared herself satisfied, but I am not sure whether this is what she really wants.
>>
>>
>> ***********
>> sysuse auto
>> des
>> labmask foreign, values(foreign)
>> des
>> tab foreign
>> la li
>> ***********
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tirthankar Chakravarty
>> Sent: Sonntag, 16. Mai 2010 08:45
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: st: How to rename value label names to match variable names?
>>
>> 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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