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Re: st: Viewing variable labels and notes at the same time
From
Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Viewing variable labels and notes at the same time
Date
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:57:24 -0400
This code will produce a sloppy table. Maybe other listers can improve
on this to produce a better formatted table using better smcl
sysuse auto
note mpg : This is a note
quietly {
nois di "VARIABLE {tab} LABEL {tab} NOTE"
foreach x of varlist * {
local `x'l: var label `x'
notes _fetch `x'n : `x' 1
nois di "`x' {tab} ``x'l' {tab} ``x'n' "
}
}
Hope this helps
_______________________
Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Venable <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear Statalist,
>
> Is it possible to view lists of variables that display both variable
> labels and notes at the same time?
>
> What I have in mind is something like the output one gets from
> display, except including any variable notes in the same line as the
> variable name, value label, variable label, etc. Currently, display
> shows an asterisk indicating that a given variable has notes - I
> suppose what I would like is for the actual note or notes to appear in
> place of the asterisk.
>
> For example:
>
> sysuse auto
> notes make: Test note 1 (make)
> notes price: Test note 2 (price)
> desc make price
>
> yields
>
> storage display value
> variable name type format label variable label
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> make str18 %-18s * Make and Model
> price int %8.0gc * Price
>
> and what I would like to have is something like (with apologies for
> the formatting-by-hand)
>
> variable name variable label notes
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> make Make and Model Test note 1 (make)
> price Price Test note 2 (price)
>
>
>
> The reason I ask (in case there's a better way to address the problem)
> is that I use the variable label in tables and graphs, which requires
> using a fairly short label, but I also want to have information about
> the origin of a variable, which is better suited to a note.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
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