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st: RE: how to save an instance of a class in MATA
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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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
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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?
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