Re: st: Mata question

["E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>]

Thanks.

Slide 27 clued me in.  I'd not have figured that out, and I wish this 
was more explicit in the manual.

Here's how it went starting outside mata...


. global vl2 "drug sex"

. mata
------------------------------------------------- mata (type end to 
exit) ----------------------------
: X=st_data(.,tokens("$vl2"))

:

Paul


Martin Weiss wrote:
> Make sure you take into account Kit Baum`s talk at the London UGM:
>
> http://repec.org/usug2008/StataMata.beamer.UKSUG14.pdf
>
> HTH
> Martin
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>   
> > Datum: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:44:49 -0500
> > Von: "E. Paul Wileyto" <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>
> > An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Betreff: st: Mata question
> >     
>
>   
> > I'm new to Mata, and just testing the waters. 
> >
> > As I read through the first of the Mata programming books, it is not 
> > transparent to me how you take a macro /"varlist"/ and import the 
> > variables as a matrix in Mata.  Perhaps it is different in 
> > non-interactive mode, but trying to use st_view and st_data 
> > interactively seems to require that I have all sorts of punctuation 
> > around each of the variable names, punctuation that cannot be preserved 
> > and passed on in macroland.  Is there a quick way of taking the usual 
> > varlist macro and referring to it with st_data?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
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> > Tobacco Use Research Center
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E. Paul Wileyto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Tobacco Use Research Center
School of Medicine, U. of Pennsylvania
3535 Market Street, Suite 4100
Philadelphia, PA  19104-3309

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Fax: 215-746-7140
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