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reaching my box now.
Roy
> Yes, there is. See -help extended_fcn-
>
> clear
> 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 "row 2 of BETA is `: word 2 of `: rowname BETA''"
>
>
>>
>> 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.
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