hello,
i'm exporting cells out of matrices, and have a problem when cells are
missing.
To be more precise:
it's important for me, to address the relevant row of a matrix with its
name, not with its number (because it's a loop and numbers are changing,
not names)
e.g. matrix M is defined with rownames, a, b, c. I need the first
column of row "b" and therefore I create a new matrix: matrix
B=M["b",1].
Now, the problem is the following: in some matrices (of the loop) not
all rows are available, but eg only the rows a and c.
The loop stops when "b" is not found! I want Stata to insert a missing
and going on, rather than giving the error message and stopping the
loop!
Possilbly there is an option, how to treat not-found-rows or an
if-function has to be implemented. But how?
Does anyone know a solution to this problem???
Thanks
Nicole
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