--- Pablo Mitnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is rather inconvenient when you have a longer code to run in
> Mata; and I haven't found any explanation in the manuals why the
> code with "mata" and "end" shouldn't work -- my bet is that this is
> a bug.
The end command is run in Stata not Mata, so you get the correct error
message.
The way to do this in a more convenient way is to first create a mata
function, so within the loop all you need is a single call to Mata.
This is explained in terms of .ado programming in -help m1_ado-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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