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Re: st: output variables and labels to excel


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: output variables and labels to excel
Date   Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:05:25 +0100

Good point. Thanks,
Nick
[email protected]


On 19 August 2013 19:58, Robert Picard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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