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Re: st: Fwd: how to use the label of oldvar to name newvar
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Fwd: how to use the label of oldvar to name newvar
Date
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:34:20 +0100
When you say "the label" are you referring to value labels or variable labels?
Can you give an equivalent example with a dataset we can all access e.g.
sysuse auto
Nick
[email protected]
On 14 April 2013 14:29, anne broe <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I am encoding a string var atc to a numeric var n_atc to enable the
> use of forvalues.
> In each loop i generate a newvar called atc_`xx' if atc== `xx' and
> collapse (sum) of this variable.
> My problem however that instead of atc_`xx' I would like the variable
> to be named after the original string var atc which equals the label
> of n_atc.
>
> Is there anyway you can use the `xx' to identify to variable and then
> name it after the label?
>
> Hope someone can help me
> Thanks
> Anne
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