st: RE: FW: Possible to generate a variable and specifying the label?

["Jesper Lindhardsen" <JESLIN01@geh.regionh.dk>]

Hi J,

I think that would require you to define the label beforehand, which may
or may not be feasible. So in essence you only "get rid" of on line,
that is, the -label values- statement (at least in 11.2 ....)




clear all

set obs 10

label define Lab 0 "Zero"

g var:Lab=0




BW, Jesper




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of J. J. W.

Dear community users,

I am fairly new at STATA 12, so the question I ask might be a bit simple
and
uninteresting for advanced users. I've already tried to look for a
solution,
however I couldn't find any. The problem is as follows: I would like to
generate a variable including specifying the label name (i.e. I would
like
to generate variable X and at the same time specifying the label name
instead of specifying it afterwards). Now I've looked at the following:
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?gen and came to the conclusion that
generate
[type] newvar[:lblname] =exp [if] [in] is the command I was looking for.
I
tried the following:

gen NewVar:testlblName = X

(note: where NewVar is the name of the new variable and testlblName is
the
label name I wanted to give NewVar; please bear with me that this is
useless
command, only used for experimenting with STATA 12 as NewVar would be
the
same as the list of points in X.)

Could someone give an example of how to correct do this? Or point my
mistake? I am almost certain that this is possible, however I can't seem
to
get it work.

Yours sincerely,

J. J. W.

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