Kit Baum <[email protected]> writes:
> Elementary, my dear Brendan. No need to do anything in the Stata
> matrix language in order to get the Stata variable into Mata. If
> you want to do anything with matrices, you should pick up some
> familiarity with Mata; it makes life a lot simpler.
>
[...]
> mata:
> st_view(a=., ., "v3")
> st_matrix("b",invvech(a))
Thanks again -- views are neat. I've taken the Mata manual home for
weekend reading. As I said, I've been avoiding thinking about Mata,
as I've just invested a good deal of effort in learning to write
plugins to do something I suspect Mata could do...
Brendan
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