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Re: st: generate stata variables in mata and set the names from matrices


From   Cyrus Levy <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: generate stata variables in mata and set the names from matrices
Date   Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:11:34 -0500

I changed the line below

stata(`"local namer=radian[1,rd]"')

to

stata(`"global namer=radian[1,rd]"')

but it still doesn't work as I want... Line by line entry works this way as well. (by the way, there must be a shorter way to code what I want like 3 lines shorter but how)


On 4/29/2011 5:36 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
Evidently a local macro defined in one place is not visible in another.

See a posting from Tuesday:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-04/msg01227.html

Nick

2011/4/29 Cyrus Levy<[email protected]>:
I want to generate stata variables in mata, and set the names of those
variables using a mata matrix. I use the code below which is supposed to
work -it works when I enter the lines line by line-, but then when I run it
in a do file, it doesn't work. It doesn't generate a HHI_R50 variable. It
generates a HHI_R variable with no extension referring to the corresponding
matrix value. What's wrong?

...
mata
...
radian=(50,75,200)
  for (rd=1; rd<=cols(radian); rd++) {
...
        st_matrix("radian", radian)
        st_numscalar("rd", rd)
        stata(`"local namer=radian[1,rd]"')
        stata("gen HHI_R`namer'=.")
        st_store(., "HHI_R`namer'", HHI_R)
}
end
...

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