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st: RE: RE: column and row naming


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: column and row naming
Date   Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:05:19 +0100

Ben Jann

> > I've got two related questions regarding column and row names.
> > (1) How can I replace the 'jth' column name only?
> > (2) How can I save as a macro the 1st j column names from
> a matrix?
>
> As far as I know, there are no specific functions for such
> purposes and
> you have to use some work arounds.
>
> (1) To change the name of row 2 to "whatever":
>
>  mat a=(1 \ 2 \ 3)
>  forv i=1/`=rowsof(a)' {
>   if `i'==2 local rnames "`rnames' whatever"
>   else local rnames "`rnames' `:word `i' of `:rownames(a)''"
>   }
>  mat rownames a=`rnames'
>  mat list a
>
> (2) To save the first 2 rownames as a macro:
>
>  mat a=(1,2\ 3,4\ 5,6)
>  forv i=1/2 {
>   local rnames "`rnames' `:word `i' of `:rownames(a)''"
>   }
>  di "`rnames'"
>
> Note that the rownames *must not* contain spaces, since the extended
> macro function -rownames()- returns the names without quotes.
> Furthermore, only names will be changed but not eqnames (use the
> extended macro function -fullrownames()- if you want to
> change both).
>
> The resulting macro 'rnames' will have a leading space
> (usually, this is
> irrelevant). If you want to remove it, type
>
>  local rnames: list retokenize rnames
>

My analysis resembles Ben's.

To develop a key point, you can assign
a row or column name including one or
more spaces, but you cannot retrieve
it (easily).

. mat A = J(2,2,1)

. mat rownames A = "two words" "three more words"

. mat li A

symmetric A[2,2]
                  c1  c2
       two words   1
three more words   1   1

However, in reverse, the words of `: rownames A'
are, when -tokenize-d,

_1:             two
_2:             words
_3:             three
_4:             more
_5:             words

Not long ago, I suggested to Stata Corp
adding a handle to pick up such row and column names.

Nick
[email protected]

P.S. on Ben's last point, an alternative is

local rnames "`rnames'`:word `i' of `:rownames(a)'' "

leaving a trailing space. This is a sense the same
problem, except that a trailing space is often
not so obtrusive as a leading one.

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