RE: st: RE: xline macro or scalars

[Buzz Burhans <wsb2@cornell.edu>]

Thanks Nick. My error was in thinking that the forval 1/3 would loop over 
the variables, and at each loop would clear/replace the contents of -local 
events-

The mkmat thought was incomplete, I had been trying to work through this 
for a fair time before I posted to the list the first time, and had thought 
that perhaps I could make a matrix from the three variables, and then read 
a row into a macro.  I did not pursue it further, so I'll leave it there 
for today.

Thanks again for the explanation

Buzz





> No. You should get up to 3 lines, by virtue of the
> -forvalues- loop. Here's the code again:
>
> levels id, local(levels)
> foreach l of local levels {
>          // next line clears macro
>          local events
>          forval i = 1/3 {
>                  su event`i' if id == `l', meanonly
>                  if r(max) < . local events "`events'`r(max)' "
>          }
>          if "`events'" != "" {
>                  xtline response if id == `l', ///
>                  subtitle(panel `l') xline(`events')
>          }
>          else xtline response if id == `l', subtitle(panel `l')
>          more
> }
>
> The -forvalues- loop loops over -event1- to -event3-.
> Of course, your variable names may well be something else,
> and may not have such structure.
Buzz Burhans
wsb2@cornell.edu


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