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Re: st: --insheet--reading an excel file where row 1,2 are variable names and labels
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Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: --insheet--reading an excel file where row 1,2 are variable names and labels
Date
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:55:18 +0000
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Amanda Fu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Then my question is: is there any easy way to let Stata name the
> variables using first row and define labels using the second row when
> reading a data set from excel file?
No, Stata's -insheet- just doesn't work like that.
I'd remove the second row from your CSV file. You can now -insheet,
names- (i.e. specify the -names- option when insheeting) so your
first row of variable names is recognised, then write your do-file to
label these variables.
Neil
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