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Re: st: How to insert scalars (elements from Stata's matricies) as locals' values in the 'forvalues' command?
From
Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>
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Re: st: How to insert scalars (elements from Stata's matricies) as locals' values in the 'forvalues' command?
Date
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:34:17 +0200
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Charalambos Karagiannakis wrote:
> sum time_quarter
> forvalues i = [r(min)](1)[r(max)] {
The way to make that work is:
forvalues i = `r(min)'(1)`r(max)' {
or:
forvalues i = `r(min)/`r(max)' {
However, I suspect that you are much better of not running that loop
at all and instead look at the -by- prefix in combination with -egen-.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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