Re: st: How can I save results of a command as a variable

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

After you use any command, you can type -return list-
to get a list of scalar values that may be saved from
the command.
===============Example =============================
. ainequal rank

---------------------------------------
       Inequality measures |       rank
---------------------------+-----------
          Gini coefficient |    0.46679
Theil index (GE(a), a = 1) |    0.36986
---------------------------------------

. return list

macros:
             r(theil) : ".3698631855111214"
              r(gini) : ".4667922732186306"

matrices:
                 r(b) :  2 x 1

.
======================================================

This shows that the Gini coefficient is stored as a string
(not sure why) in the macro r(gini). If you wanted this to
be stored in a variable as a number you would type:

. gen gini = real(r(gini))

Hope this helps,
Jeph




GUO Lei wrote:
> Dear all,
>     I'm not familiar with Stata yet. Could anybody please tell me how 
> can I save an outcome to a variable.
>
>     For example, if I'm using ainequal downloaded from internet, and I 
> have the result, one of which is Gini coefficient. My question is how 
> can I save this outcome into some variable?
>
>     Thanks ahead! Have a good one!
> best,
> nick
>
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