Re: [Gretl-devel] Variable names in summary statistics (and similar)
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bounces(a)lists.wfu.edu] Im Auftrag von Allin Cottrell
Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Februar 2017 22:46
An: Gretl development <gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu>
Betreff: Re: [Gretl-devel] Variable names in summary statistics (and similar)
On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Schaff, Frederik wrote:
> Thanks for the answer. I thought it might be that one just needed to
> adjust, say, a parameter, to make it consistent with the regular
> maximal variable names length but I guess this would spoil the fixed
> layout. Another suggestion would be to somehow "switch"
> to variables IDs if the name is too long. Something like ID_xyz or
> such, instead of simply truncation with ~.
OK, that's an idea worth thinking about.
> Then I could use copy & paste to adjust the names in the latex tables,
> without risking to mix everything up.
My first thought is that with looong names you might want to depart from
the triangular matrix format altogether.
Allin
The ones I am actually using for publication or presentation I am past-processing anyway
(2 column names, as an example). ATM I cannot (without room for error) use the latex
export (or raw export into, say excel, where I can use Exel2LaTex to prepare the data
further for latex and fine tune it there later) because all the Information on the
variables is lost due to the truncation.
Frederik