Re: st: mata

["David M. Drukker" <ddrukker@stata.com>]

Alexander Staus <Alexander.Staus@uni-hohenheim.de> obtained the error
message "no room to add more double literals" when putting values into a
Mata matrix.

For instance, Alexander is performing an operation like

X = (123456, 789101123 \
     234567, 891011121 )

but with more elements.

The number of elements currently allowed for this type of operation is
100, which is very small.

In a future update, we will expand this limit so that it no longer binds.

In the meantime, as a work-around, Alexander can put his values into a Stata
dataset and then use -st_data()- to put the values into a Mata matrix.

Here is an example.

. input v1 v2

            v1         v2
  1.   123456 789101123
  2.   234567 891011121
  3. end

. 
. mata: 
--------------------------------- mata (type end to exit) --------------------
: x = st_data(., tokens("v1 v2"))

: x
               1           2
    +-------------------------+
  1 |     123456   789101120  |
  2 |     234567   891011136  |
    +-------------------------+

: end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

   --David
     ddrukker@stata.com

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