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

[Jakob Pohlisch <mailjp@gmx.net>]

David,

such simple solution! A bit smarter every day ;-)
Thank you so much!

Jakob


Am 04.12.12 23:59, schrieb David Radwin:
> 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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