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From   "Siyam, Amani" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Defining a matrix of Characters
Date   Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:03:57 +0100

Dear Nick,

Thanks for your response. I am actually putting together a short *.ado
to perform an analysis that requires that matrix of characters. 

I have Stata 9.1 and I thought of using Mata but if I do that then any
user with a Stata version lower than 9.0  will not be able to run my
ado.

Am I correct in assuming that.

Thanks for your help.

Amani


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 14 March 2006 19:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: Defining a matrix of Characters

Long route or short, you must use Mata
for this. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Siyam, Amani
 
> Could you kindly tell me if it is possible to define a matrix 
> A[1x6] of
> characters as follows:
> 
> matrix A=[a b c d e f]
> 
> I tried going the long route as follows:
> 
> 	foreach i in a b c d e f  {
> 		gen `i'= "`i'"
> 	}
> 	mkmat a b c d e f , matrix(A)
> 	
> 	varlist:  a:  string variable not allowed
> 	r(109);
> 
> I got an error message as you can see...

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