I think Ben slightly understates how easy it is -- once you know the syntax, naturally.
. mat A = (1, 1 \ 2, 2)
. mat rownames A = one two
Here are two further variations on how to do it. One nests function calls:
. di "`: word 2 of `: rownames A''"
two
The other uses -tokenize- first:
. tokenize "`: rownames A'"
. di "`2'"
two
Nick
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Ben Jann
The trick is as follows:
<--->
matrix input BETA=( 193\ 30 \ 133 \ 51\ 9.8 \ 0.1 )
matrix rownames BETA= dog cat rat mouse flea bubonic
matrix colnames BETA=IQ
mat lis BETA
local r = rownumb(matrix(BETA),"bubonic")
local c = colnumb(matrix(BETA),"IQ")
matrix RowNamesNoLongerLost=BETA[`r',1...]
matrix RowNamesNoLongerLost=RowNamesNoLongerLost[1...,`c']
mat lis RowNamesNoLongerLost
<--->
However, if you just want to extract the names (and if you know that
the names do not contain blanks!) you can also simply type:
<--->
local colnms: coln BETA
local rownms: rown BETA
local colname: word 1 of `colnms'
local rowname: word 6 of `rownms'
<--->
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Jacob Wegelin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Suppose we have a matrix BETA with -rownames- and -colnames-.
>
> Given the names of a row and of a column in BETA, it is possible to
> extract the indices of that row and of that column, as shown below.
>
> But is there an equally simple approach to the reverse problem? I
> mean: Given a row index, is there an elegant way to extract the name
> of that row?
>
> The solution below seems clumsy. As seen with -matrix LostRowNames-,
> extracting a one-row matrix from a one-column matrix causes the
> -rownames- to be lost. Thus my program uses a column join, which seems
> like a kludge.
>
> /* BEGIN STATA CODE */
>
> clear all
> matrix input BETA=( 193\ 30 \ 133 \ 51\ 9.8 \ 0.1 )
> matrix rownames BETA= dog cat rat mouse flea bubonic
> matrix colnames BETA=IQ
> mat lis BETA
>
> di "index of row called bubonic is " rownumb(matrix(BETA),"bubonic")
> di "index of column called IQ is " colnumb(matrix(BETA),"IQ")
>
> matrix LostRowNames=BETA[1,1]
> mat lis LostRowNames
>
> capture program drop getRowName
> program define getRowName, rclass
> local thismatrix="`1'"
> local rowindex=`2'
> matrix TWO= `thismatrix', `thismatrix'
> matrix TEMPORARY=TWO[`rowindex',1..2]
> local rowname: rownames TEMPORARY
> return local matrixname="`thismatrix'"
> return scalar rowindex=`rowindex'
> return local rowname = "`rowname'"
> end
>
> getRowName BETA 1
> return list
> getRowName BETA 5
> return list
>
> /* END STATA CODE */
>
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