Nick, I take your message to mean that it is not possible to replace
characters in matrix row names. In that case I will continue to use
the solution suggested by Stata tech support, which changes value
labels before any matrices are created.
My final goal is a tab-delimited text file that will be imported into
a word processor to create a table like the one below. This table
compares income across different groups in the same sample from a
national household survey.
===================
Group Median
income
===================
Male $XXX
Female $XXX
-------------------
Primary ed. $XXX
Secondary ed. $XXX
Higher ed. $XXX
-------------------
Urban $XXX
Rural $XXX
-------------------
New Jersey $XXX
New Mexico $XXX
New York $XXX
===================
Total $XXX
===================
I save the output from several -tabstat, by()- commands in matrices,
combine them in one big matrix, save this big matrix as variables
with -svmat2-, and export the variables to a text file with
-listtex-. Creating the table this way is faster than using
-collapse- repeatedly because it does not require saving anything to
my slow hard drive until the last step.
Friedrich Huebler
--- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's true that you are hitting a limitation of
> -matrix rownames- (which -svmat2- when written
> in 1999, and now, could do nothing about)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I am looking for a way to save a matrix that was created with
> -tabstat, by()-. An important assumption is that the value labels
of
> the -by- variable are not known in advance. I want to save the row
> names together with the matrix values but don't know what to do
when
> the row names contain certain special characters like spaces or
> apostrophes.
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