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Re: st: RE: Using Mata within a foreach loop = r(1)


From   Pablo Mitnik <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Using Mata within a foreach loop = r(1)
Date   Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:41:44 -0600

Thanks much for the suggestion . I can do that, and will probably do it.
But:
1. Is there a documented "end" command in Stata? Typing "help end" returns nothing, while "search end" only returns the Mata end statement.
2. If I am "within Mata," shouldn't everything be run in Mata?
Best,
Pablo

Maarten buis wrote:

--- 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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