Stata List
-list- lists data.
Contents
Usage
list foo bar baz list foo bar baz in 1/10 list foo if bar==baz
Display Formats
-list- shifts between two output modes based on the width of the output, and on the width of the screen. Table format is as a columnar table. Display format is a list of cells that wraps indefinitely across rows.
String Length and Truncation
-list- examines values to allocate the screen's width across columns. If the longest value for a string variable with format %18s is 12 characters long, then -list- will only allocate 12 columns for that variable. This behavior can be disabled using the nocompress option.
Note that the default behavior has an impact on performance, especially for large datasets. As such, there is a fast option which is simply an alias for nocompress.
To truncate string values to an explicit length, try:
list comment, string(10)
String Alignment
In table format, string values are always right-justified.
In display format however, string values are aligned according to the display format. A string value would be left-justified if the variable had a format of %-18s.
Variable Name Length and Truncation
Variable names are abbreviated to 8 characters. To increase that limit, try:
list very_long_variable_name, abbreviate(50)
Value Labels
Value labels (as opposed to values themselves) are displayed. To override this behavior, use the nolabel option.
Value labels are aligned in the same way as string values; based on the output mode and the display format. Just as a string value would be left-justified if the variable had a format of %-18s, a label would be justified if the variable had a format of %-8g.