Thanks. In fact, that is exactly what I ended up doing. The previous
step was just left in as I was trying to de-bug things...
--Herb
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Nick Cox wrote:
> Scott's loop can be simplified to
>
> forv i = 1/10 {
> matname A `= mpg[`i']'', row(`i') e
> }
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Scott Merryman
>
> > What you need is the macro expansion operator `=exp' which
> > provides the
> > inline expression evaluator (see [P] macro).
> >
> > Here is one way to rename the rows as values of the variable
> >
> > sysuse auto, clear
> > keep in 1/10
> > mkmat mpg, mat(A)
> >
> > forv i = 1/10 {
> > local temp`i' = mpg[`i']
> > matname A `=`temp`i''', row(`i') e
> > }
> > matrix list A
>
> Herb Smith
>
> > > Suppose I want to label the 12th row of a matrix: 1982-83
> > >
> > > If I assign this value to a local macro, and then use
> > matname, everything
> > > is fine:
> > >
> > > . local tmp12a="1982-83"
> > > . matname matrixname `tmp12a', row(12) e
> > >
> > > i.e., when I list the matrix, the label is 1982-83
> > >
> > > This is a silly way to do things, but now consider the
> > problem where a
> > > label such as 1982-83 is the 12th case of a
> > variable such
> > as
> > > var15 .
> > >
> > > . local tmp12b=var15[12]
> > >
> > > assigns the string 1982-83 to the new local macro, in the
> > > sense that
> > >
> > > . dis `tmp12b'
> > >
> > > displays 1982-83
> > >
> > > but the command
> > >
> > > . matname matrixname `tmp12b', row(12) e
> > >
> > > results in the label: var15[12] being assigned
> > to the 12th row of
> > > the matrix--not the string associated with this element.
> > >
> > > Is there a workaround for this?
> > >
> > > Or, more generally, is there a simple way to assign the values of a
> > > variable to the corresponding rows of a matrix (which is
> > what I am trying
> > > to do here)?
>
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