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st: RE: converting lists to matrix


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: converting lists to matrix
Date   Thu, 5 May 2005 20:03:46 +0100

-makematrix- is a user-written program too. 
Both -makematrix- and -shuffle- are on SSC. 

-makematrix- does make matrices, but not using 
the kind of building blocks you provide. It is 
expecting a variable list in the place where 
you put 1/10. That is explicit in the syntax. 

You want something like 

mat shuffled = J(10,1,0) 
shuffle 1/10, num noisily 
forval i = 1/10 { 
	mat shuffled[`i',1] = `: word `i' of `r(list)''
} 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Indranil Majumdar
 
> I want to shuffle a list and save the result in a matrix. I tried the
> following.
> 
> . local var "1/10"
> 
> . shuffle `var',num noisily
> 2 10 4 5 9 7 3 1 6 8
> 
> . makematrix,from(r(list)):shuffle `var',num
> 1 invalid name
> r(198);
> 
> I use the user-written -shuffle- command but when I use it 
> with -makematrix-
> it doesn't work.
> I guess I am missing something very basic. Could somebody help ?

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