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


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Re: saving memory local vs usual variable
Date   Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:37:32 +0100

Not the main point, perhaps, but there is a much more direct way to do
this. 

sysuse auto, clear 
su price, meanonly 
local max = r(max) 
su trunk, meanonly 
di max(`max', r(max)) 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Martin Weiss

Well, -egen- does not take more than one variable because usually that
is 
what users want: either the -max- of a variable or the max across
columns, 
which -egen- also supports with the -rowmax- option. If you want the
maximum 
of two vars for whatever reason:

sysuse auto, clear

tempvar prmax trmax overallmax

egen `prmax'=max(price)
egen `trmax'=max(trunk)
egen `overallmax'=rowmax(`prmax' `trmax')
su `overallmax',mean
loc max=r(max)

di in red `max'

Ashim Kapoor

> 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.
>

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