Maybe also have a look at -mm_cond()- from the -moremata- package.
It's a matrix version of Mata's conditional operator.
. ssc install moremata
. help mata mm_cond()
It will not be faster than your loop though, I think.
ben
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:29 PM, philippe van kerm
<[email protected]> wrote:
> See under 'conditional operator':
>
> help m2_op_conditional (http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?m2_op_conditional)
>
> Philippe
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicola Orsini
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:21 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: st: ifelse mata function
>>
>> Mata users,
>>
>> do you know any mata function similar to ifelse implemented in R or
>> the cond() programming function in Stata?
>>
>> http://www.iiap.res.in/astrostat/School07/R/library/base/html/ifelse.ht
>> ml
>>
>> I know I can loop across observations but it's not really fast with
>> large dataset in an optimization process where this process has to be
>> repeated many times.
>>
>> Here is a simple example
>>
>> mata
>> mata clear
>> y = runiform(10,1)
>> x = runiform(10,1)
>> z = J(10,1,.)
>> for (i=1; i<=rows(y); i++) {
>> if (y[i]>= x[i]) z[i] = y[i]-x[i]
>> else z[i] = x[i]-y[i]
>> }
>> y, x, z
>> end
>>
>> Wouldn't be great to have a mata function like -ifelse-?
>>
>> ifelse(y>=x, z=y-x, z=x-y)
>>
>> Nicola
>>
>>
>>
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