st: Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:56:37 +0200

["Maarten Buis" <M.Buis@fsw.vu.nl>]

--- adiallo5@worldbank.org wrote:
> My problem is that I need to return some colvector 
> matrices in stata as variables to be used later. I 
> don't know how to do that:
>
>         for (i=1; i<=cols(Z1); i++) {
>            printf("i=%g\n",i)
>            Z1i = Z1[1...,i]
>            nomx = ("Z1i") 
>            stata("cap drop Z1i") 
> // I tried "cap drop Z1`i'", not working 
>            st_addvar("double",nomx)
>            st_store(.,nomx,Z1i)
>         }
>
> My matrice Z1 has 3 columns. I want to create Z11
> Z12 Z13 as new variables in my datasets. But in 
> Stata I only get Z1i as a variable.


 
I am no mata expert, all I can tell you is what I found
in the helpfiles:
I don't think it is necessary to loop here: 
-help mf_st_addvar- tells me you can create multiple 
variables in one go and -help mf_st_store- tells me you 
can store a matrix.
 
I forwarded this answer to the statalist in case there 
is a mata expert listening and willing to check or 
elaborate my answer.
 
Hope this helps,
Maarten 
 
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