Correct about the missing quotes and other
careless slips. Thanks for the polish.
To put this in context, the results of
. separate mpg, by(foreign) shortlabel
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
mpg0 byte %8.0g foreign == Domestic
mpg1 byte %8.0g foreign == Foreign
are too long-winded for my graphical tastes.
For a graph, I'd personally want to zap further "foreign == "
and the corresponding lines should be more like.
local eq = index(`"`label'"', "=")
local label = substr(`"`label'"',`eq'+3,.)
That's what more or less -labnoeq- does, any way.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Arnold Kester
> Sent: 13 February 2004 13:59
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: Getting at value labels
>
>
> Two missing quotes and a missing part in the label string, imho.
>
> Nick Cox wrote:
> > I would do this. I assume value labels attached
> > to -marEduc-.
> >
> > separate aRate, by(marEduc) shortlabel
> > local aRatevars "`r(varlist)'"
> > twoway connected `aRatevars' year
> >
> > Sometimes even the -shortlabel- is too long.
> > (There should be an option -veryshortlabel-
> > to go beyond the -shortlabel- I suggested
> > a while back.)
> >
> > ssc inst labutil
> > labnoeq `aRatevars'
> >
> > will cut them down further. The first principles
> > way to do that is something like
> >
> > foreach v of local aRatevars {
> > local label : variable label `v'
>
> Here a ' missing:
>
> > local eq = index(`"`label'"', "=") - 1
>
> and here a ' and the second part of the string
>
> > local label =
> substr(`"`label'"',1,`eq')+substr(`"`label'"',`eq'+4,.)
> > label var `v' `"`label'"'
> > }
> >
> I'd been looking for this for some time, so I tried it right
> away. Thanks.
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