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RE: st: local variables and running do files
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: local variables and running do files
Date
Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:41:02 +0100
You must change
sum `var'
to
sum $var
as Jorge did explain.
It's a matter of taste, but I wouldn't use global macros here; I would pass arguments to do-files as in my previous.
Nick
[email protected]
Maria Ana Vitorino
I tried global macros but it does not work either...
Thanks,
. do "/var/folders/Xn/Xnl4Mq-lGR4-mNII1zm-Wk+++TI/-Tmp-//SD17268.000000"
. global var "var1 var2"
.
end of do-file
. do "/var/folders/Xn/Xnl4Mq-lGR4-mNII1zm-Wk+++TI/-Tmp-//SD17268.000000"
. sum `var'
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
var1 | 24 12.5 7.071068 1 24
var2 | 24 36.5 7.071068 25 48
var3 | 24 61.5 7.071068 50 73
.
end of do-file
On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez wrote:
> You can use global macros, instead of local macros. Global macros are
> not erased when the execution of the do-file is finished.
>
> global var "var1 var2"
> sum $var
>
> _______________________
> Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Maria Ana Vitorino
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear statalist users,
>> I would like to run a do file in batches (i.e. a few lines at a time)
>> but it seems that then the local variables that I defined in the
>> beginning do not carry over ...
>> Any solution for this?
>>
>> Here is some output for a simple example so that you can better
>> understand what is my issue.
>>
>> Thanks!!
>> Ana
>>
>>
>> . do "/var/folders/Xn/Xnl4Mq-lGR4-mNII1zm-Wk+++TI/-Tmp-//
>> SD17268.000000"
>>
>> . sum
>>
>> Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min
>> Max
>> -------------
>> +--------------------------------------------------------
>> var1 | 24 12.5 7.071068 1
>> 24
>> var2 | 24 36.5 7.071068 25
>> 48
>> var3 | 24 61.5 7.071068 50 73
>>
>> . local var "var1 var2"
>>
>> .
>> end of do-file
>>
>> . do "/var/folders/Xn/Xnl4Mq-lGR4-mNII1zm-Wk+++TI/-Tmp-//
>> SD17268.000000"
>>
>> . sum `var'
>>
>> Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min
>> Max
>> -------------
>> +--------------------------------------------------------
>> var1 | 24 12.5 7.071068 1
>> 24
>> var2 | 24 36.5 7.071068 25
>> 48
>> var3 | 24 61.5 7.071068 50 73
>>
>> .
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