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Re: st: Preserve Variable Labels After Reshape
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David Torres <[email protected]>
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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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