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From | Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | 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 --------------------------------- Maarten L. Buis WZB Reichpietschufer 50 10785 Berlin Germany http://www.maartenbuis.nl --------------------------------- * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/