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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: how to save an instance of a class in MATA |
| Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:47:48 +0000 |
I don't think you can store classes; you can just store definitions of classes, which can be done through a do-file containing the corresponding Mata code. Even if I am wrong, what use would a stored class be? What would it look like? A simple analogy is with a graph file. A graph file does not contain a graph, but rather instructions on how to draw a graph. (For that matter, I suppose a data file is really just a collection of bits that a program knows how to read as data.) -f??tmatrix()- only know about matrices and is no use to you here. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk michel.grzebyk@inrs.fr I would appreciate if someone can help me with how to save in a file an instance of a class in MATA and then how to read it later. I know that for instance of structures, fputmatrix() and fgetmatrix() can be used. Can these functions be used too with instances of classes? * * 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/