Re: st: transpose question

[John Luke Gallup <jlgallup@pdx.edu>]

Dave,

The most relevant part of the documentation for putting Stata data into Mata matrices is in

help m1_ado    (Using Mata with ado-files)
help m4_stata  (Stata interface functions)

That said, I would recommend starting from the beginning!  Read the relatively short and concise (like most Stata documentation - the reason I switched from SAS so many years ago)  introduction to Mata programming at

help m1_intro

John

On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Airey, David C wrote:

> .
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Where does one start to understand use of Mata for data manipulation in the documentation? Don't say at the beginning. :)
> 
> -Dave
> 
>> Once you work out the syntax to move data into Mata matrices, all the manipulation in Mata is _much_ easier than handling matrices in Stata.
>> 
>> Stata's (and Mata's) matrix cross-product functions in many cases allows you to work with a K x K matrix, avoiding holding a larger K x N matrix.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> On Jul 21, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Airey, David C wrote:
>> 
>>> .
>>> 
>>> Stata's data tables are limited to 32,767 variables.
>>> 
>>> In Mata, matrices are limited only by the amount of memory on your computer.
>>> 
>>> For very large row column transpose problem, do other users
>>> break the data set into smaller pieces, transpose and then put it back
>>> together in Stata? Or do you somehow use Mata?
>>> 
>>> -Dave
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