This should work if the string values
are acceptable as row names:
sysuse auto
gen M = word(make,1)
replace M = subinstr(M, ".","",.)
mkmat mpg weight, matrix(A)
forval i = 1/`=_N' {
matname A `=M[`i']', row(`i') explicit
}
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Faye Turner
> How do I tell STATA to use the first column (a string variable) of my
> dataset as the row names when converting variables to a matrix?
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