I should add: the question is a good one.
Sometimes stuff announced in Stata n is
in fact silently incorporated in earlier
versions -- usually for the convenience
of the developers.
But not Mata; and usually only little
or medium-size things, so far as I am aware.
Nick
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Nick Cox
> Absolutely!
Siyam, Amani
> > Thanks for your response. I am actually putting together a
> short *.ado
> > to perform an analysis that requires that matrix of characters.
> >
> > I have Stata 9.1 and I thought of using Mata but if I do
> that then any
> > user with a Stata version lower than 9.0 will not be able to run my
> > ado.
> >
> > Am I correct in assuming that.
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