st: RE: Too few quotes error

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Looks OK quotequotawise. 

But if you did this before, made some mistake, and then corrected, your local macro `rn' might have a lot of stuff in it left over like dirt on a shoe. 

So try once more but first go 

local rn 

to clear that macro. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Michael C. Morrison

This is probably a question for Kit Baum, although I'm sure others could 
handle it. I'm trying to duplicate his efficient (and greatly 
appreciated) code found in "/Stata tip 88: Efficiently evaluating 
elasticities with the margins command"/, The Stata Journal (2010), 10, 
Number 2, pp. 309-312 . When I run this code

// calculate elasticities at deciles over full sample:
forvalues i=10(10)90 {
quietly margins, eyex(_all) at((p`i´) _all)
local rn "`rn´ p`i´"
matrix nu = nullmat(nu) \ r(b)
}
matrix rownames nu = `rn´
matrix list nu, format(%6.3f) ti("Elasticities")

I receive the following error "too few quotes" right after }

What am I missing?

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