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

[Cyrus Levy <levy.cyrus@gmail.com>]

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
> > ...
> >
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