Ashim,
a local macro is local to its environment (do-file or program). Thus,
if you define it in a do-file, it will cease to exist (i.e. be empty)
after the do-file has finished. Just as local macros, when defined
interactively, don't survive the end of a Stata session.
Btw, if you want to save the sum of a variable in a macro, you don't
need to create a new variable for it.
qui sum twodayfallindex, meanonly
local dispdate = r(sum)
Of course you'd still have to rethink what to do in terms of when you
define your macros.
Eva
2008/9/23 Ashim Kapoor <[email protected]>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Maybe I am getting tired so I am not able to see this. Maybe some one
> else can see it.
>
> I do this : -- >
>
> egen twodayfallindex=sum(twoindex)
> local dispdate = twodayfallindex[_N]
>
>
> in a do file.
>
> and after I run the do file if I say -macro dir- it does not show up
> in the macros!!
>
> How can that be ?
>
> I don't know why I am unable to initialize this macro : ( !
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim.
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