AW: st: How can I transfer the variable labels to excel using the outsheet command?

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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" What I want is to export to a csv file not only the variable names but
also the variable labels.



Where would the csv-file put the variable label, though? Below the variable
name, i.e. in the second row?



You may want to look at Roger`s -ssc d descsave- which says in its mission
statement:

"descsave can be used together with outsheet and insheet to construct a
definitive generic spreadsheet version of the data (in case the user needs
to return to the data decades into the future, when all proprietary software
has evolved beyond recognition)."



HTH
Martin


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Betreff: Re: st: How can I transfer the variable labels to excel using the
outsheet command?

Dear Neil,

Thanks a lot for your help.

Yes what I'm actually doing is creating a csv file and i'm using excel
to open it.

But my problem with the variable labels still remain.  My concern is
not with the value labels of a categorical variable (which I know how
to export to a csv file) but with the variable labels of the variable
names.

For example I have used:

label variable var01 "this is variable one"

to create the variable label "this is variable one" for variable var01.

What I want is to export to a csv file not only the variable names but
also the variable labels.



On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:27 AM, A Loumiotis
> <antonis.loumiotis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Statalist,
>>
>> When I use the outsheet command the variable names but not the
>> variable labels are transferred to excel.
>> Is there any way to also transfer the variable labels to excel?
>
> As per the Statalist FAQ, it would be useful if you provided the
> _exact_ command you are using.
>
>
> 1. -outsheet- does not have the capacity to write Excel files.  I
> suspect you are writing to a CSV (Comma Separate Variables) file and
> on your OS (I'll hazard a guess at some M$-Windows variant) this file
> extension is associated with M$-Excel so that when double-clicked on
> it opens up in that program.
>
> 2. The -outsheet- command should be default write out variables that
> have labels applied to them using the labels themselves, unless you
> have explicitly specified the -nolabel- option (as explained in -man
> outsheet-).
>
> So, without knowing what you are doing I suspect you mistakenly using
> the -outsheet using filename.csv, comma nolabel- (or similar) syntax,
> and if you omit the -nolabel- option you should obtain what you are
> after.
>
> Neil
>
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