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From | Tirthankar Chakravarty <tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: loop over variable groups (not individual variables) |
Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:39:04 -0700 |
You are almost there: /*********************************************/ clear* // generate some data set obs 100 foreach x of newlist va vb vc vd ve vf vg vh vi { g `x' = runiform() } // create the locals local v1 "va " local v2 "va vb vc" local v3 "vd " local v4 "vd ve vf" local v5 "vg " local v6 "vg vh vi" // regressions forv i=1/6 { reg `v`i'' } /*********************************************/ T On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Amanda Fu <mandy.fu1@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to loop over the following set of variable groups ( > instead of individual variables). But my syntax gives looping over > individual variables. May I have some suggestion on how to fix my > command? Thank you for your time! > > ************define variable list ********************* > local v1 "va " > local v2 "va vb vc" > local v3 "vd " > local v4 "vd ve vf" > local v5 "vg " > local v6 "vg vh vi" > > My goal is to loop over v1,v2,...,v6, like this: > reg va > reg va vb vc > reg vd > reg vd ve vf > reg vg > reg vg vh vi > > That is, when it comes to v2, I want to indicate "va vb vc" together > instead of looping over va vb vc one by one. I have tried the > following 2 ways. But both of them gives loop over each variable, > instead of looping over local list. > > ********1************** > local i=1 > foreach v in `v`i' { > reg y `v' > local i=`i'+1 > } > > *********2************ > local i=1 > foreach v in local v`i' { > reg y `v' > local i=`i'+1 > } > > Best, > Amanda > * > * 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/ > -- Tirthankar Chakravarty tchakravarty@ucsd.edu tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com * * 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/