Re: st: How Can I Store a Variable's Label to Label Another Variable?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

-copydesc- (SSC) is a user-written program; you are asked to explain
where it comes from. (By the way, -copydesc- morphed into -clonevar-,
which is now an official command. -copydesc- is only of real use to
people still using Stata 6 or 7. -clonevar- was added to Stata 8.)

That said, you are correct that -copydesc- is not the answer here, and
the solution to your problem is more direct.

foreach X of varlist   inflation_r  wages_a {
              generate `X'_1 = `X'/2
              local label : variable label `X'
              label variable `X'_1 `"Half of `label''"'
}

See -help extended fcn-.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Charalambos Karagiannakis
<karagiannakis.charalambos@ucy.ac.cy> wrote:

> The loop below labels the new variables using the name of the
> original variables (see line 3). Is there any way to label the new variable
> using the label (instead of the name) of the original variable? I found the
> command ‘copydesc’ however that command is used when you want to copy the
> description of another variable exactly as it is. In my case below the label
> of the new variable contains a couple of other words as well.
>
>
>
> local i = 1
>
> foreach X of varlist   inflation_r  wages_a {
>
> generate `X'_1 = `X'/2
>
> label variable `X'_1 `"Half of `X'"'
>
> }
>
>
>
> Since command ‘describe’ gives also the variables’ labels I tried to see
> (using the ‘return’ command) whether it saves any results. However, is seems
> like it does not save the labels. Is there any way to label variable `X'_1
> as: Half of ‘and then here I would like the label of variable X instead of
> the name of variable X’?

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