Re: st: full length variable labels as matrix row names

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Have a look at the help for -limits-. From memory I think that row and  
column names can not be as long as value labels, but check the limits  
for your version and flavour of Stata.

Nick

On 15 Jul 2011, at 04:04, Alex Olssen <alex.olssen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have made a matrix to collect the results of some unit root tests.
> I would like the matrix row names to be the value labels of the  
> variables.
> Unfortunately they get contracted with the ~.

> Is there a way around this?
>
> For example
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> matrix define A = J(3, 1, 0)
> foreach v of var make price rep78 {
>    local lbl`v': variable label `v'
> }
> matrix rownames A = "`lblmake'" "`lblprice'" "`lblrep78'"
> matrix list A
>
> And the names of the "make" and "rep78" rows are contracted with a ~
>
> I have looked around on the Statalist archives and also on Google but
> haven't turned up anything.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex
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