Re: st: -labellacking- available on SSC

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

Have I tried too soon?
I am getting: 404 Not Found
repec:boc:bocode:s457662 is not a current RePEc item handle (tried
/software/bocbocode/s457662.htm)
after following a link from:
http://repec.org/docs/ssc.php
Sergiy

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last month Toby Robertson started a thread on detecting which values
> of numeric variables are unlabelled when value labels have been
> defined.
>
> The thread starts at
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-06/msg01004.html and
> featured contributions by
>
> Peter Lachenbruch
> Steve Nakoneshny
> Richard Goldstein
> Robert Picard
> and myself
>
> and suggestions of various approaches based on
>
> -tabulate-
> -codebook-
> -labelbook-
> -decode-
>
> and a more complicated combination of commands by Toby himself.
>
> A rough program -labellacking- based on Robert's suggestion of using
> -decode- was posted in
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-06/msg01033.html in the
> face of some scepticism.
>
> Now thanks as ever to Kit Baum's help a more polished version by
> Robert and myself can be downloaded from SSC using -ssc inst
> labellacking-.
>
> The objection was to introducing what could be a long string variable
> into an already large dataset, but the code in -labellacking- produces
> only a temporary -str1- variable, which is sufficient to detect
> missing string values that correspond to non-defined value labels.
>
> Stata 8.2 is required. If you are interested you can install via
> -ssc-, but for the indefinitely curious some quick examples follow my
> signature. The default of -labellacking- is to ignore extended missing
> values, to ignore variables with all values assigned value labels and
> especially to ignore numeric variables without any value labels
> defined at all, but all those defaults can be reversed.
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
> . sysuse auto, clear
> (1978 Automobile Data)
>
> . label define rep78 1 abysmal 2 adequate
>
> . label val rep78 rep78
>
> . labellacking price-foreign
> rep78   3 4 5
>
> . labellacking price-foreign, all
> rep78     3 4 5
> foreign   (none)
>
> . labellacking price-foreign, all report
> price          (no value label)
> mpg            (no value label)
> rep78          3 4 5
> headroom       (no value label)
> trunk          (no value label)
> weight         (no value label)
> length         (no value label)
> turn           (no value label)
> displacement   (no value label)
> gear_ratio     (no value label)
> foreign        (none)
>
> . labellacking rep78, missing
> rep78   3 4 5
>
> . replace rep78 = .a if rep78 == .
> (5 real changes made, 5 to missing)
>
> . labellacking rep78, missing
> rep78   3 4 5 .a
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