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Re: st: Re: saving memory local vs usual variable


From   "Ashim Kapoor" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Re: saving memory local vs usual variable
Date   Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:29:57 +0530

On 2nd thought.

egen j=max(x) DOES NOT take more than one variable.

It is gen which can do the max of 2 or more variables.

So since egen returns a variable with ONE constant value, it would
seem that it should be allowed to be stored in a scalar / local macro.

Thank you,
Ashim.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Ashim Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ahh I see what you are saying. For multiple variables it won't work. I
> usually use it to find the max of ONE variable. I guess that confused
> me.
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim.
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Eva Poen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2008/10/3 Ashim Kapoor <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> And I am still puzzled as to why someone would not allow us to set
>>> local  j=max(list)
>>> cos that seems intuitive.
>>
>> If the list includes variable names, how is Stata supposed to know
>> which observation's maximum you mean? -egen- is meant to work with
>> variables. -egen- functions are not available outside -egen.
>>
>> On the other hand, there are Stata functions (-help functions-) which
>> will work in general expressions. Therefore,
>>
>> local j = max(4, 92, -35, 399, 0)
>>
>> will correctly store 399 in local macro j.
>>
>> Eva
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