Long route or short, you must use Mata
for this.
Nick
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Siyam, Amani
> Could you kindly tell me if it is possible to define a matrix
> A[1x6] of
> characters as follows:
>
> matrix A=[a b c d e f]
>
> I tried going the long route as follows:
>
> foreach i in a b c d e f {
> gen `i'= "`i'"
> }
> mkmat a b c d e f , matrix(A)
>
> varlist: a: string variable not allowed
> r(109);
>
> I got an error message as you can see...
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