Maybe I should say why I am asking this. It just seems like STRANGE to
me that the person who programmed stata to work the way it does
INTENTIONALLY allows us to do :-
egen x=max(y)
but does not allow us to do
local x=max(y).
It just seems counterintuitive and a waste of memory. Seems unlikely
that the guy who programmed this did not think of this. That is why I
think that I am missing something.
Thank you,
Ashim.
08 at 9:29 PM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As we said this morning:
>>
>> su age,mean
>> loc lj=r(max)
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin _______________________
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashim Kapoor" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 5:54 PM
>> Subject: st: saving memory local vs usual variable
>>
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I have a question. Suppose I have a variable say - > age. Now I can do
>>> egen j=max(age). Then I will have the max value of age in ONE
>>> VARIABLE! Horrible waste of memory. I try to do local lj=max(age) and
>>> that does not work. How can I conserve memory ? Is there something
>>> basic which I have missed ?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Ashim.
>>>
>>> PS : I do understand that I can do egen j = max (age ) and then say
>>> local lj=j[1] and then -do drop j - but is there a better way ?
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