Thank you very much Nick.
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Val�rie Orozco
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Economie et Sociologie Rurales
Toulouse
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:00:40 -0000
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
Subject: st: RE: labels
One solution here is to use -label save-
before the append and then use the
created .do file afterwards.
Nick
[email protected]
orozco
I have 2 files with the same variables "name" and "color". Variable
"color" is an integer variable with a label, but the label is
defined in each file, thus depending on the values of the variable
"color" existing on each file. The problem is just that when I
want to append the 2 files, I lose the labels of the values
which are on the file I want to append, but which are not on the
master data. I don't know how to do to append some label to the
first label...maybe there is an easy way to do so (except to
generate only one label first because I have a lot of files with
the same variable already labelled)
Let's have an example :
data1 :
list
+-----------------+
| name color |
|-----------------|
1. | georges blue |
2. | robert red |
3. | simone blue |
+-----------------+
but in fact, variable color has a label :
. label list
typocolor:
1 blue
2 red
data2 :
list
+------------------+
| name color |
|------------------|
1. | alfred red |
2. | monique yellow |
+------------------+
. label list
typocolor:
2 red
3 yellow
And when I do (on data1) "append using data2", I have :
. list
+-----------------+
| name color |
|-----------------|
1. | georges blue |
2. | robert red |
3. | simone blue |
4. | alfred red |
5. | monique 3 |
+-----------------+
. label list
typocolor:
1 blue
2 red
The value "3" which is not in data1 has no label after the append
command. Someone has an idea?
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