If that's what you want.
Nick
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Martin Weiss
loc absmax=max(`max', r(max))
at the end of your code to get this into a -local- then?
Nick Cox
> 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))
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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