st: Re: saving memory local vs usual variable

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

As we said this morning:

su age,mean
loc lj=r(max)

HTH
Martin 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashim Kapoor" <ashimkapoor@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 5:54 PM
Subject: st: saving memory local vs usual variable



> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a question. Suppose I have a variable say - > age. Now I can do
> egen j=max(age). Then I will have the max value of age in ONE
> VARIABLE! Horrible waste of memory. I try to do local lj=max(age) and
> that does not work. How can I conserve memory ? Is there something
> basic which I have missed ?
>
> Thank you,
> Ashim.
>
> PS : I do understand that I can do egen j = max (age ) and then say
> local lj=j[1] and then -do drop j - but is there a better way ?
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