April 5, 2001 the varlabelpos option was added. This command that controls the
positioning of variable labels in the Variables window; see help varlabelpos.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Traci A Schlesinger" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 12:17 AM
Subject: st: variable labels
> hi statalisters:
>
> when using stata for windows, variable labels generally appear next to
> the variable names in the variable box. however, this does not happen
> when i use my stata7 package which is on my laptop. i have been told my
> someone at "data and statistical services" here at princeton that this
> was a bug in early version of stata7, which could be fixed by updating.
> since i did purchase stata7 soon after it came out, this seemed
> plausible; however updating did not fix the problem. perhaps it's not a
> bug, but rather there is an option that i don't know about? in either
> case, is there some way for me to fix this? i am using national
> criminal reporting data, and the variable names are simply v1 . . .
> v107, but they have descriptive variable labels, which i can see when i
> open the data on a university computer with stata, and it would be very
> helpful if they were visible. alternately, is there a command that
> would rename my variables there variable labels?
>
> any advise would be greatly appreciated!
>
> thanks,
> traci a schlesinger
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