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st: RE: merging variable labels


From   David Airey <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: RE: merging variable labels
Date   Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:48:10 -0600

I'll do that. Thanks, Nick!

-Dave


The easiest way, I guess, is to copy the
second file to make a do file. Each line
should then be prefixed with

label var

and each explanation should be bracketed
within " ". With a decent text editor it
should be fairly straightforward.

Nick
[email protected]

David Airey

> I was sent two files, one containing data that could be
> imported using
> insheet, with variable names in the first row, and the other
> containing
> variable names and a short explanation of each variable. Is there an
> easy way to label the variables with the explanations without typing
> them in by hand using the label variable command?
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