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> [email protected] wrote
> >
> > I don't know of anything quite like this, but
> > for once a looping over observations would seem
> > to solve the problem:
> >
> > }
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
>
> This will work, no doubt. The reason I hadn't considered
> -forvalues- for
> this purpose was that I wanted to avoid looping over
> observations. Such
> looping is not so bad with my current data which contains
> approx. 2000
> observations but may be computationaly intensive and slow
> if I try to extend
> the procedure to situations where labels may take up to
> 65,536 different
> coding values -- the Stata limit for value labels. I
> tested the loop on a
> dataset of 30,000 observations and it took 2 minutes to
> complete, which is
> not the end of the world for the use I'll make of it.
>
> But what escaped me in my own proposed solution below is
> that step 2 (where
> I would use -file- to substitute a space-character for the
> first comma)
> would itself require looping over observations (!). I will
> probably go with
> Nick's solution as I don't see anything else for now.
>
Banging my head against this once more, I wondered about
something like
local N = _N
forval i = 1/`N' {
local val = naics[`i']
local label = labelnaics[`i']
local args `"`args' `val' "`label'""'
}
label def naicslab `args', modify
but `args' would get too long in Patrick's bigger
examples.
Nick
[email protected]
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