st: RE: reading value labels -- second and third largest values

["David Radwin" <dradwin@mprinc.com>]

Jakob,

For question 2, you want to use the extended macro function for the value
label, which is easier to show than to describe:

sysuse nlsw88
codebook race
levelsof race, local(levels)
foreach x of local levels {
	display as result "The value for race `x' is `: label (race)
`x''."
	}

The help topic can be found at

. help extended_fcn

David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jakob Pohlisch
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 2:30 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: reading value labels -- second and third largest values
> 
> Hello List,
> 
> i have some short questions concerning user written ado-Files. Iam
> writing my own little program here and this list has been an awesome
> help for me so far. Thanks to everyone involved!
> But now i finally have some problems which a search in the list can't
> solve...or i just cannot find the answer.
> 
> 1. The command summarize is computing the 4 largest and smallest values.
> Unfortunately the command is not storing them for the reason that it is
> a build in command i cannot manipulate it to do so. To get this values
> from a dataset is not that hard. i would just sort the values and take
> the values of the observations _N, _N-1 and so on. But if i would like
> to use the bysort "command" i would have to get the values of
> "subsamples" of my datatset. This is not to hard if i use the preserve
> and restore commands. But these commands unfortunately are VERY
> time-consuming. I have really big datasets on hand and would like to
> obtain those values without the preserve and restore commands. Any idea?
> 
> 2. I managed to get the levels of a variable with "levelsof `var',
> local(levels)". Now i would like to obtain the value labels of those
> values if they exist. This will help me displaying my results.
> 
> Thank you so much in advance and sorry for all the text and my bad
> writing ;-)
> 
> Jakob

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