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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 19:01:58 +0100

If that's what you want. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Martin Weiss

loc absmax=max(`max', r(max)) 

 at the end of your code to get this into a -local- then?

Nick Cox

> 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)) 

 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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