In other words, what can go in rownames is very restricted!
Nick
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Austin Nichols
> read -help levelsof- and -help matrix rownames- first, but you may
> need something from -help extended_fcn- to process the list of
> values...
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> levelsof make, local(m)
> mat j=J(74,1,0)
> local nodot: subinstr loc m "." "", all
> mat rownames j = `nodot'
> mat li j
> local nospace: subinstr loc nodot " " "", all
> local respace: subinstr loc nospace "'`" "' `", all
> mat rownames j = `respace'
> mat li j
Tom Boonen
> > how can I extract values of a string varaible and put them into
> > rownames of a matrix?
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