David Moore
> There's at least one thing you can do with the SAS macro programming
> language that I have found useful. You can create
> functions. I know egen
> allows some limited capabilities with respect to new
> variable generation,
> but functions are more general. For example, they can be
> used to calculate
> or return values in many different programming contexts,
> not just to create
> variables.
True. That is, suppose you wanted to write
a Stata function to calculate logits. You could write
a -egen- function to create new variables, or
you could write -logitf- such that you could go
logitf 0.5
and it could print 0, and leave behind
r(logit)
so that you could go
logitf <argument>
... = r(logit)
So you can't define a function allowing you then to do
things like
. di logitf(0.5)
in just one line.
Nick
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