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st: Use of macro content stored in r()


From   Evelyne Fournier <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Use of macro content stored in r()
Date   Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:42:40 +0200

Dear statalist members,

I have a file containing agregated data of cancer cases (nbcas) and at-risk population (pop) per gender, periode and cancer localisation (loc). Using the following command, I get the standardised incidence rate per those variables :
dstdize nbcas pop clage, by(sex periode loc) using(c:\data\refmonde.dta)

I would like to automatically export the incidence rates. This can be done thanks to -mat2txt- ( Michael Blasnik, available from SSC).

mat ADJ = r(adj)
mat2txt, matrix(ADJ) saving("C:\data\taux_ajust.txt") replace

The thing is, the created file contains k columns (for exemple k=40 columns) with names ranging from C1 to C40. Thanks to the command -return list-, I can see that column named C1 of file "taux_ajust.txt" contains the incidence rate of kidney cancer for men in 1980.

-------begin of log copy
return list
scalars:
                r(k) =  40
macros:
                r(by) : "sex periode loc"
                r(c40) : "`"2"' `"2009"' `"lung"'"
    ///
                r(c1) : "`"1"' `"1980"' `"kidney"'"
------end of log copy

These informations (contents of r(c1)..r(ck)) are stored in macros, and I'm stuck here. Is there anyway I could get a file where both information (column name C1..Ck and corresponding macro content stored in (r(c1)..r(ck) ) would be together ?
(ex: C1 "`"1"' `"1980"' `"kidney"'" ; /// ;C40 "2"' `"2009"' `"lung"'")

I use Stata IC 11.2 for Windows (32-bit), revision 16th February 2012.

Thanks a lot for your help

Evelyne

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Evelyne Fournier
Registre des Tumeurs du Doubs et du Territoire de Belfort
CH Saint Jacques
25030 Besançon Cedex
Tel : 03 81 21 83 14
mail : [email protected]
site registre : http://www.chu-besancon.fr/registretumeursdoubs/

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