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| From | "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: Re: about macro's double quotes |
| Date | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:54:30 -0000 |
You need to
. set varabbrev off
for this to work.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
G. Dai
sorry, I was always reminded that
r5pnhm already defined
r(110);
the previous is a typo.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:19 AM, G. Dai <dgecon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a first time user of macros. As you can see from below, I want to
> generate a new var r`i'pnhm when x=md. After execute the do file, it
> runs smoothly for x=md. After that, however, I was always reminded by
STATA
> that
> r5pnhm5y already defined
> r(110);
> so what's wrong with the following program. BTW,I'm little bit
confused by
> the macro
> quotes, can anyone say tips?
>
> global set "md mom dad";
> foreach x in $set {;
> forvalues i=5/8{;
> gen r`i'pnhm=. if "`x'"=="md";
> replace r`i'pnhm=int(10*r`i'pnhm5y)/10 if "`x'"=="md";
> ....
> };
>
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