Don't do that, then!
More seriously, you are violating the
syntax of -regress-, or more generally of
what counts as a varlist. Simply, the " "
are not allowed in a varlist. Your
command should be just
regress $base
Nick
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> Thanks! For some reason, when I put quotation marks around
> $base I get the error message
>
> "var1 var2 var3 var4 invalid name
> r(198);
>
> But when I put nothing around $base, everything works fine.
> And this holds if I use multiple global macros. For example,
> the following works:
>
> tabstat $base $ace $case, by(person) stats(n mean median cv)
Philipp Rehm <[email protected]>
> - -global- may be what you are looking for. See "help global"
>
> global base "lncgdp s n popuned popprimed popseced pophighed openc"
>
> regress "$base"
>
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