Re: st: Referencing variable labels in a foreach loop

[Philipp Rehm <philipp.rehm@gmx.de>]

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Try this:

di "`: var label `v''"

See help extended_fcn.

HTH,
Ph

On 7/13/2010 10:18 PM, Ishir Bhan wrote:
> Is there any way to reference a variable's label, rather than the
> variable name, in a foreach loop?
>
> For example, I want to do a Spearman correlation of one variable with
> a list of other variables. Then I want to print the name of the
> variable with a significant association along with rho and the
> p-value.
>
> I can do this like this:
>
> foreach var of varlist totalgrams-sucralosemg {
> 	quietly spearman alb `var'
> 	if r(p)<0.05 {
> 		display "`var'" _column(40) round(r(rho),0.01) _column(50) round(r(p),0.0001)
> 	}
> }
>
> However, this will display the name of the variable, not its label.
> Oftentimes, the label is more informative.
>
> Any way to do this?
>
> Thanks.
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