RE: st: Mata and do files

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

To close this off:  

Given a multiple varlist such as "price length weight" as an argument to -st_view()-, you need to wrap it in -tokens()- in Stata 9.2 and 10.1, but not in 11.1 or 12.0, so everybody's right about something (and I was thus wrong in my first comment as far as Alex is concerned). 

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

Nick Cox
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I have 12, but it's at my workplace, and I'm not.

. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. mata
------------------------------------------------- mata (type end to exit) -----
: st_view(a = ., ., "price length weight")
variable price length weight not found
               st_view():  3500  invalid Stata variable name
                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error
r(3500);

: end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Nick Cox 
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>> It didn't work for me in Stata 10.1. (My machine with Stata 12 is a mile away.)

Alex Olssen
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>>> Nick, you said "price length weight" is not an acceptable argument for
>>> -st_view()- however typing the following interactively in a new Stata
>>> session suggests otherwise.
>>>
>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>> mata
>>> st_view(a=., ., "price length weight")
>>> a

Nick Cox
========
 
>>>> "price length weight" is not an acceptable argument for -st_view()-.
>>>> You need to tokenize it.


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