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Re: st: forvalues and _N


From   "Michael I. Lichter" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: forvalues and _N
Date   Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:30:06 -0400

Whoa! This works even though `=_N' is clearly not a macro. Is this an undocumented feature, or is it a "real" part of Stata that will stick around? I'm sorry if this is discussed somewhere in the FAQ -- I have no idea how to search for it.

Michael

Philip Ryan wrote:
Try:

forvalues i = 1/`=_N'  {

....

}


Phil


At 06:01 PM 10/10/2008, you wrote:
Hi Stata users,

I have been searching for a special command in regard to *forvalues*, but without success.

I need something like:

gen N=_N

forvalues i = 1/N {
...
}

In my case, N is the maximum number of observations in my sample. I do not want to write 22345 or something instead of N because the number of observations might vary depending on how many observations I have dropped before.

But it is not possible to use N in a loop command at this place.


Are you aware of any stata updates being a solution to that problem?

Do you know a way to program it any better?

cheers

Bastian M Steingros


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