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From | Cyrus Levy <levy.cyrus@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
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<levy.cyrus@gmail.com>: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 ... * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/* * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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