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Re: st: output variables and labels to excel
From
Robert Picard <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: output variables and labels to excel
Date
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:58:17 -0400
nope, this is a relatively unknown feature of -describe-. The
-replace- option creates a dataset with the output of -describe-.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> But you must create -name- and -varlab- yourself first, right?
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 19 August 2013 19:48, Robert Picard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It can't get any easier than...
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> describe, replace
>> export excel name varlab using varlabs
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> You could do something like this assuming that you don't have more
>>> variables than observations.
>>>
>>> gen varname = ""
>>> gen varlabel = ""
>>> local i = 1
>>> quietly foreach v of var * {
>>> replace varname = "`v'" in `i'
>>> replace varlabel = "`: var label `v''" in `i'
>>> local ++i
>>> }
>>>
>>> and then export those two variables. But Roger Newson's -descsave- is
>>> much more versatile and elaborate. -search descsave- for locations.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 August 2013 18:39, Caroline Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Stata,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to output the names of all variables in my Stata dataset and their labels to an excel file. For example, I would like to end product to look like this:
>>>>
>>>> Variable name Variable label
>>>> gender Patient gender
>>>> DOB Date of birth
>>>> Race Patient race
>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way to do this? I tried codebook but it gave me a lot more information than I needed, and I also had formatting problems when copying and pasting the output into Excel.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks in advance for any help!
>>>> Caroline
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