Not the main point, perhaps, but there is a much more direct way to do
this.
sysuse auto, clear
su price, meanonly
local max = r(max)
su trunk, meanonly
di max(`max', r(max))
Nick
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Martin Weiss
Well, -egen- does not take more than one variable because usually that
is
what users want: either the -max- of a variable or the max across
columns,
which -egen- also supports with the -rowmax- option. If you want the
maximum
of two vars for whatever reason:
sysuse auto, clear
tempvar prmax trmax overallmax
egen `prmax'=max(price)
egen `trmax'=max(trunk)
egen `overallmax'=rowmax(`prmax' `trmax')
su `overallmax',mean
loc max=r(max)
di in red `max'
Ashim Kapoor
> On 2nd thought.
>
> egen j=max(x) DOES NOT take more than one variable.
>
> It is gen which can do the max of 2 or more variables.
>
> So since egen returns a variable with ONE constant value, it would
> seem that it should be allowed to be stored in a scalar / local macro.
>
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