Re: st: keeping variable labels after -collapse-

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:33 AM, annoporci wrote:

> I found it tedious to copy the pieces of code everytime I needed to
> - -collapse- so I implemented Nick's algorithm by saving the pieces of code
> in separate files and -include- ing them into the master code.
> 
> In practice, you only need to remember to "squeeze" -collapse between
> "include copylabels" and "include attachlabels".
> 
> My contribution is modest, but I send it to Statalist for the record.
> 
> All credit goes to Nick Cox. Thanks.
> 
> Like so:
> 
>      sysuse sp500,clear
> 
>      sort date
>      tsset date
>      gen qdate = qofd(date)
>      format qdate %tq
>      local variables open close
> 
>      cd "C:\stata\labels\"
> 
>      include copylabels
>      collapse (mean) `variables', by(qdate)
>      include attachlabels
> 

Ingenious, but somewhat unncessary, as Stata will do this for you:

label save using whatever.do
replace...
do whatever.do

will restore the labels.

Kit

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