Re: st: -labellacking- available on SSC

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I managed to install my own program by

. ssc inst labellacking

and I can see the files by using -ssc type-. I can only surmise that
Sergiy is trying some browser route.

As always, a browser may tell you that a package exists, but -ssc-
remains the recommended method of installation.

The specific difficulty here probably arises from Kit's inability to
do everything at once; the details on repec will no doubt follow the
installation on the SSC server.

Kit  is catching up on a backlog of installation requests. I for one
remain indefinitely grateful for his labours in making my stuff
accessible over several years.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 2 July 2013 18:04, Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have I tried too soon?
> I am getting: 404 Not Found
> repec:boc:bocode:s457662 is not a current RePEc item handle (tried
> /software/bocbocode/s457662.htm)
> after following a link from:
> http://repec.org/docs/ssc.php
> Sergiy
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Last month Toby Robertson started a thread on detecting which values
>> of numeric variables are unlabelled when value labels have been
>> defined.
>>
>> The thread starts at
>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-06/msg01004.html and
>> featured contributions by
>>
>> Peter Lachenbruch
>> Steve Nakoneshny
>> Richard Goldstein
>> Robert Picard
>> and myself
>>
>> and suggestions of various approaches based on
>>
>> -tabulate-
>> -codebook-
>> -labelbook-
>> -decode-
>>
>> and a more complicated combination of commands by Toby himself.
>>
>> A rough program -labellacking- based on Robert's suggestion of using
>> -decode- was posted in
>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-06/msg01033.html in the
>> face of some scepticism.
>>
>> Now thanks as ever to Kit Baum's help a more polished version by
>> Robert and myself can be downloaded from SSC using -ssc inst
>> labellacking-.
>>
>> The objection was to introducing what could be a long string variable
>> into an already large dataset, but the code in -labellacking- produces
>> only a temporary -str1- variable, which is sufficient to detect
>> missing string values that correspond to non-defined value labels.
>>
>> Stata 8.2 is required. If you are interested you can install via
>> -ssc-, but for the indefinitely curious some quick examples follow my
>> signature. The default of -labellacking- is to ignore extended missing
>> values, to ignore variables with all values assigned value labels and
>> especially to ignore numeric variables without any value labels
>> defined at all, but all those defaults can be reversed.
>>
>> Nick
>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>
>> . sysuse auto, clear
>> (1978 Automobile Data)
>>
>> . label define rep78 1 abysmal 2 adequate
>>
>> . label val rep78 rep78
>>
>> . labellacking price-foreign
>> rep78   3 4 5
>>
>> . labellacking price-foreign, all
>> rep78     3 4 5
>> foreign   (none)
>>
>> . labellacking price-foreign, all report
>> price          (no value label)
>> mpg            (no value label)
>> rep78          3 4 5
>> headroom       (no value label)
>> trunk          (no value label)
>> weight         (no value label)
>> length         (no value label)
>> turn           (no value label)
>> displacement   (no value label)
>> gear_ratio     (no value label)
>> foreign        (none)
>>
>> . labellacking rep78, missing
>> rep78   3 4 5
>>
>> . replace rep78 = .a if rep78 == .
>> (5 real changes made, 5 to missing)
>>
>> . labellacking rep78, missing
>> rep78   3 4 5 .a
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