I usually end up doing something like Philippe's example when I want an
equivalent to :? that produces a vector or matrix result.
Note that Nicola's particular example is not very convincing as
abs(y - x)
gets you there in one. If abs() didn't exist
rowmax((x,y)) - rowmin((x,y))
would be another way to do it.
But Nicola's wider question remains. I don't know if there's a technical
question why :? doesn't extend beyond scalar results.
Nick
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philippe van kerm
Sorry, I realize the conditional operator will not help as it only takes
a scalar as condition. Then, one can probably do the switch 'manually'
with something like
z = (y:>=x) :* (y:-x) + (1:-(y:>=x)) :* (x:-y)
philippe van kerm
> See under 'conditional operator':
>
> help m2_op_conditional
> (http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?m2_op_conditional)
Nicola Orsini
> > do you know any mata function similar to ifelse implemented in R or
> > the cond() programming function in Stata?
> >
> >
>
http://www.iiap.res.in/astrostat/School07/R/library/base/html/ifelse.ht
> > ml
> >
> > I know I can loop across observations but it's not really fast with
> > large dataset in an optimization process where this process has to
be
> > repeated many times.
> >
> > Here is a simple example
> >
> > mata
> > mata clear
> > y = runiform(10,1)
> > x = runiform(10,1)
> > z = J(10,1,.)
> > for (i=1; i<=rows(y); i++) {
> > if (y[i]>= x[i]) z[i] = y[i]-x[i]
> > else z[i] = x[i]-y[i]
> > }
> > y, x, z
> > end
> >
> > Wouldn't be great to have a mata function like -ifelse-?
> >
> > ifelse(y>=x, z=y-x, z=x-y)
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