st: Re: Stata matrix to Mata matrix form

["Bianca B." <bianca268@yahoo.com>]

Dear Nick,

Thanks a lot. I converted a lower-triangular matrix from stata to mata form to apply the mata makesymmetric command but it doesn't work.
The command is 

: makesymmetric(mat_S2)
[symmetric]
       1   2
    +---------+
  1 |  0      |
  2 |  1   0  |
    +---------+

Would you have any suggestion?
Best,
Bianca



. mat foo = J(6,7,42)

. mat li foo

foo[6,7]
    c1  c2  c3  c4  c5  c6  c7
r1  42  42  42  42  42  42  42
r2  42  42  42  42  42  42  42
r3  42  42  42  42  42  42  42
r4  42  42  42  42  42  42  42
r5  42  42  42  42  42  42  42
r6  42  42  42  42  42  42  42

. mata : mat_foo = st_matrix("foo")

. mata : mat_foo
        1    2    3    4    5    6    7
    +------------------------------------+
  1 |  42   42   42   42   42   42   42  |
  2 |  42   42   42   42   42   42   42  |
  3 |  42   42   42   42   42   42   42  |
  4 |  42   42   42   42   42   42   42  |
  5 |  42   42   42   42   42   42   42  |
  6 |  42   42   42   42   42   42   42  |
    +------------------------------------+

. mata : st_matrix("foo", mat_foo :/ 7)

. mat li foo

foo[6,7]
    c1  c2  c3  c4  c5  c6  c7
r1   6   6   6   6   6   6   6
r2   6   6   6   6   6   6   6
r3   6   6   6   6   6   6   6
r4   6   6   6   6   6   6   6
r5   6   6   6   6   6   6   6
r6   6   6   6   6   6   6   6

--- On Thu, 11/1/12, Bianca B. <bianca268@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Bianca B. <bianca268@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Stata matrix to Mata matrix form
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:25 AM
> Hi Stata users,
> 
> Does anyone know how can I get stata matrix in mata matrix?
> 
> Bianca
> 
> 
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