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Re: st: Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:56:37 +0200


From   "Ben Jann" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:56:37 +0200
Date   Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:41:15 +0200

Amadou ([email protected]) asked me the same thing offlist. My answer was:

	The following should work:
	
	         for (i=1; i<=cols(Z1); i++) {
	            printf("i=%g\n",i)
	            Z1i = Z1[1...,i]
	            nomx = ("Z1" + strofreal(i))
	            stata("cap drop " + nomx)
	            st_addvar("double", nomx)
	            st_store(.,nomx,Z1i)
	         }
	
ben


On 3/31/07, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
--- [email protected] wrote:
> My problem is that I need to return some colvector
> matrices in stata as variables to be used later. I
> don't know how to do that:
>
>         for (i=1; i<=cols(Z1); i++) {
>            printf("i=%g\n",i)
>            Z1i = Z1[1...,i]
>            nomx = ("Z1i")
>            stata("cap drop Z1i")
> // I tried "cap drop Z1`i'", not working
>            st_addvar("double",nomx)
>            st_store(.,nomx,Z1i)
>         }
>
> My matrice Z1 has 3 columns. I want to create Z11
> Z12 Z13 as new variables in my datasets. But in
> Stata I only get Z1i as a variable.



I am no mata expert, all I can tell you is what I found
in the helpfiles:
I don't think it is necessary to loop here:
-help mf_st_addvar- tells me you can create multiple
variables in one go and -help mf_st_store- tells me you
can store a matrix.

I forwarded this answer to the statalist in case there
is a mata expert listening and willing to check or
elaborate my answer.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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