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st: Re: assigning a name to the output of -count-


From   Kit Baum <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Re: assigning a name to the output of -count-
Date   Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:37:54 -0500

In addition, you might want to look at my recent posting

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/ statalist.0412/date/article-797.html

which discussed how to make use of results of r(count).

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Jan 2, 2005, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


Dear Stata users,

I would like to count the number of missing observations in a variable
-var1- of my dataset and perform cetain operations based on the count.
To do this I entered
count if var1 == .
and  I get a number, lets say 40: However, when I wanted to compare
the output of count (here 40) with another number such that:
if count <=50 {....

I receive error message saying that stata could not find count. How
can I assign a name to the output of the count command?

thanks a lot
Sarah
If you do -return list- after the -count- command, you'll see that the
value computed by -count- is stored in r(N).  So, do something like

count if missing(var1)
if r(N) <= 50 {...
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