-makematrix- is a user-written program too.
Both -makematrix- and -shuffle- are on SSC.
-makematrix- does make matrices, but not using
the kind of building blocks you provide. It is
expecting a variable list in the place where
you put 1/10. That is explicit in the syntax.
You want something like
mat shuffled = J(10,1,0)
shuffle 1/10, num noisily
forval i = 1/10 {
mat shuffled[`i',1] = `: word `i' of `r(list)''
}
Nick
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Indranil Majumdar
> I want to shuffle a list and save the result in a matrix. I tried the
> following.
>
> . local var "1/10"
>
> . shuffle `var',num noisily
> 2 10 4 5 9 7 3 1 6 8
>
> . makematrix,from(r(list)):shuffle `var',num
> 1 invalid name
> r(198);
>
> I use the user-written -shuffle- command but when I use it
> with -makematrix-
> it doesn't work.
> I guess I am missing something very basic. Could somebody help ?
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