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Re: st: Preserve Variable Labels After Reshape


From   David Torres <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Preserve Variable Labels After Reshape
Date   Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:13:32 -0600

The 150 variables I have, however, are the same in each of five files, each representing a different year. The labels are the same. I am simple trying to keep those labels after a reshape. I fail to see how in my case this doesn't make sense. 

Cheers

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On Dec 19, 2012, at 8:07 PM, "Joerg Luedicke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree with Nick that this makes no sense. Say you reshape your 150
> variables such that you have only one variable in long format, then
> you have only one variable for which you can use one label.
> 
> Joerg
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:58 PM, David Torres <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Okay, is there a way to save the labels and reinsert them after reshape? I'm not too keen on having to retype labels for 150 variables.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:24 PM, "Nick Cox" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> How could they be preserved? A -reshape- is not a one-to-one mapping.
>>> 
>>> Nick
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 1:16 AM, David Torres <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I'm reshaping some data from wide to long and would like to preserve my variable labels.  Does anyone know an easy way to do this?
>>>> 
>>>> I've already tried the user-written commands -longshape-, -reshape7-, and -reshape8-.  My variable labels were not preserved.
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