Re: st: Fwd: how to use the label of oldvar to name newvar

[anne broe <annebroe@gmail.com>]

I have tried to egen, group option with the label, and that ends up
with the same problem as when I just use the encode option.

My data looks like this

atc
"aaabbc01"
"aaabcc02"
"aaabbc04"
"bbbcdd01"
etc (40 different total)

When I use encode atc, gen(n_atc) it becomes
n_atc
1        with value label "aaabbc01"
2        with value label "aaabcc02"
3        with value label "aaabbc04"
etc

Then I have used gen atc_`xx' = 1 if n_atc==`xx'                //xx
being the values of n_atc (1-40)
But instead of atc_xx I would like my 40 new variables to be named
after the original string values e.g. the first var will then be named
"aaabbc01"

hope you can help me :)

2013/4/14 Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>:
> Alternatively, you may just be missing out on -egen, group()- with the
> -label()- option.
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 14 April 2013 14:34, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When you say "the label" are you referring to value labels or variable labels?
>>
>> Can you give an equivalent example with a dataset we can all access e.g.
>>
>> sysuse auto
>> Nick
>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On 14 April 2013 14:29, anne broe <annebroe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>> I am encoding a string var atc to a numeric var n_atc to enable the
>>> use of forvalues.
>>> In each loop i generate a newvar called atc_`xx' if atc== `xx' and
>>> collapse (sum) of this variable.
>>> My problem however that instead of atc_`xx' I would like the variable
>>> to be named after the original string var atc which equals the label
>>> of n_atc.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway you can use the `xx' to identify to variable and then
>>> name it after the label?
>>>
>>> Hope someone can help me
>>> Thanks
>>> Anne
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