Re: st: Viewing variable labels and notes at the same time

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You can program this for yourself, subject to the limitation that the
notes for a variable could be far, far larger than would fit on to a
single line. This is quick and dirty code only.

sysuse auto, clear

notes mpg : Miles per gallon are strange and arbitrary units from many
points of view. Even if you feel committed to units understood
parochially in the U.S.A., gallons per mile make more engineering or
physics sense. Further, if you follow the standards of international
science, you would prefer SI units, but even litres are marginal from
that point of view.

foreach v of var * {
	di as txt _n abbrev("`v'", 20) "{col 22}`: var label `v'' " _c
	notes `v'
}

Nick

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Venable <venablito@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

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