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Re: st: how can one quickly remove all variable labels?
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László Sándor <[email protected]>
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Re: st: how can one quickly remove all variable labels?
Date
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:22:09 -0400
Thanks!
I am concerned about speed, but I am with Phil here: this loop should
touch very little of memory, it should be lightning fast. I had no
problems with it, thanks.
Probably this is the reason why nothing is built in for it.
Laszlo
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Phil Schumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:40 AM, daniel klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The suggested loop (and other stuff) is implemented in -labvars- from -labutil2- package (SSC).
>>
>> labvars ,r
>>
>> However, since László allways seems to be concerned with speed, I am not sure a canned solution is the approach to take here.I would probably code the loop in Mata, compile and run that code.
>
>
> I don't see how speed is an issue here, since even if you're working with very wide files, we're still talking only thousands (or perhaps tens of thousands) of variables as compared to millions (or more) observations. And this is a loop that only needs to be run once. Still, if you're willing to toss the value labels at the same time, you can use
>
> label language tmplang, new
> label language default, delete
> label language default, rename
>
>
> -- Phil
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