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st: RE: Re: label (automatically)
Yes - Nick Cox wrote -labgen.ado- which does excactly that. FOr some
reason this is not on SSC. Perhaps Nick could make it avaliable.
Al
*! version 1.0.1 7/17/1996
program define labgen
version 4.0
parse "`*'", parse(" =")
if "`2'"=="=" {
local var `1'
mac shift 2
}
else if "`3'"=="=" {
local type `1'
mac shift
local var `1'
mac shift 2
}
else { error 198 }
gen `type' `var' = `*'
label var `var' "`*'"
end
AL Feiveson
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher
Baum
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:41 PM
To: Alessandro Oliveira
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: st: Re: label
Not to my knowledge.
Probably the best way of documenting this is to use variable -notes-.
Try this:
program mygen
qui gen `0'
gettoken name rest: 0
note `name': `0'
end
mygen lprice = log(price)
mygen gpm = 1/mpg
notes
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Alessandro Oliveira wrote:
> Dear Chris,
>
> Hi, I wonder if you could help me with an Stata issue.
> Is it possible for stata to automatically label a new variable with
> the formula used in "gen"? ex: gen y = x+1 automatically yielding
> label variable y with "gen y = x+1"
> Kind regards,
> Alessandro.
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