st: RE: foreach problem

["Rajesh Tharyan" <R.Tharyan@exeter.ac.uk>]

Patience is the key.

Sorry, as Michael pointed out mean(abnor'var') should be mean(abnor`var')

Not an excuse for looking carefully enough, but does stata have something
built in to check for this?

Thanks
rajesh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Rajesh Tharyan
Sent: 17 September 2008 00:32
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: foreach problem 

Hi,

Now,  what could possibly be wrong with this?

foreach var of varlist  deco pico  {
gen abnor`var'=`var'- N`var'
sort d
by d: egen Aabnor`var'=mean(abnor'var')
}

Stata gives me

. abnor'var' invalid name
  r(198);

I have already created N`var' and I can see that it exists..

Thanks
rajesh

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