Dear Walt,
Perhaps this is what you were originally planning to do?
//------------------------------------------------------------
clear
matrix A=1
local names : rownames A
gen names=""
forvalues i=1/`: word count `names'' {
replace names=`"`: word `i' of `names''"' in `i'
}
//------------------------------------------------------------
Best regards,
Sergiy Radyakin
On 5/30/08, Data Analytics Corp. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I created a matrix, M, with row names such as Frag300, Frag400, etc. I want
> to save the matrix as a set of variables so I used svmat, which worked
> perfectly. But I also want to save the row names as a variable, say rown.
> I used the following:
>
> local names : rownames M
> gen str rown = "`names'"
>
> and got the variable rown, but it's blank. I also used
>
> gen str rown = `names'
>
> but got an error message saying Frag300 not found. How do I save the row
> names as a variable?
>
> I'm using Stata 10 on a Vista machine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Walt
>
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