--- Zurab Sajaia <[email protected]> wrote:
> writing local a=el(e(b),1,1) does not work, although matrix
> A=el(e(b),1,1) does.
Zurab:
Several ways to make this work exist:
tempname a
scalar `a' = el(e(b),1,1)
or:
local a = _b[whatever the name of the first variable is]
or:
local vars: colnames(e(b))
tokenize `vars'
local a = _b[`1']
And I am sure others can think of even more elegant solutions.
HTH,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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