If you tokenize d* you will get "d*" in `1' (literally). That is, tokenize
will not exapnd varlists.
One solution:
unabbrev d*
tokenize $S_1
while "`1'" ~= ""{
genhw `1' `2'
mac shift 2
}
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> I have a load of genotype data for a whole genome screen and
> simply want to test each locus for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
> using the -genhw- command. Since there are 370 markers I
> thought I'd use the following to achieve this...
>
> tokenize d*
> while "`1'" ~= ""{
> genhw `1' `2'
> mac shift 2
> }
>
> However upon execution I'm told that
>
> too many variables specified
> r(103)
>
> genhw works fine if I type in the variable names, but this is very
> repetative (boring and time consuming).
>
> Can anyone suggest why this might be happening.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Neil
>
> Neil Shephard
> Genetics Statistician
> ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester
> [email protected]
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>
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