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Re: st: RE: RE: RE: Undocumented limitation of describe (and hence -ds-) in Stata 10?


From   "Michael I. Lichter" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: RE: RE: Undocumented limitation of describe (and hence -ds-) in Stata 10?
Date   Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:30:58 -0400

Thanks, Martin, that does solve my problem.

On the question of documentation, though, I don't see anything in the programmer's manual entry on macros regarding limitations on how many characters can be copied from one macro to another with the equals sign. I don't have access to Nick's article, unfortunately, so I don't know if he indicates where this is documented.

I also don't see anything explaining why/how r(varlist) and other r() macros are sometimes treated like local macros and sometimes not. It's not obvious to me why the first command below is valid while the second is not:

local x "`r(varlist)'"
di `:length local r(varlist)'

Thanks again.

Michael

Martin Weiss wrote:
<>

See also Nick`s http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-11/msg00769.html



HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: Dienstag, 6. April 2010 19:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: RE: Undocumented limitation of describe (and hence -ds-) in
Stata 10?


<>


And "Beware the evaluating equal sign" (NJC parlance :-) ):
http://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=pr0045



*******
clear
forvalues i = 1/30{
    gen byte testvar`i' = .
}
d, varlist
di "`r(varlist)'"
local x "`r(varlist)'"
di `:length local x'
ma di
*******


HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Weiss
Sent: Dienstag, 6. April 2010 19:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: Undocumented limitation of describe (and hence -ds-) in
Stata 10?


<>

Just say - di "`r(varlist)'"-, whether Stata 10 or 11...


HTH
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael I.
Lichter
Sent: Dienstag, 6. April 2010 19:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Undocumented limitation of describe (and hence -ds-) in Stata
10?

I found out the hard way that the r(varlist) macro result returned by -describe, varlist- (and hence -ds- and Nick Cox's -ds3-) is limited to 243 characters, at least on my computer running Stata 10. Is there a Stata setting I need to change? The help page says something about -maxvar-, but this doesn't seem like it should matter, and in any event doubling -maxvar- has on effect on this result. If this is not a settings issue, has it been fixed in Stata 11? Thanks.

-----
clear
forvalues i = 1/26 {
    gen byte testvar`i' = .
}
d, varlist
di r(varlist)
local x = r(varlist)
di `:length local x'
-----


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Michael I. Lichter, Ph.D. <[email protected]>
Research Assistant Professor & NRSA Fellow
UB Department of Family Medicine / Primary Care Research Institute
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