This example works:
*------------- begin example -----------
drop _all
set obs 500
gen r=_n
gen t=runiform()
egen q=mean(t)
local r "(line t r, sort)"
local y "(line q r,sort)"
local m `y' `r'
tw `m'
*-------------- end example ------------
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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--- On Thu, 25/6/09, moleps islon <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: moleps islon <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: macro and twoway graph
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 25 June, 2009, 4:55 PM
> Dear listers,
> For some reason I cannot respond to responses to my posting
> yesterday.
> Bare with me if the responses appear later.
>
> I´ve rephrased the problem that I cannot come to grips
> with.
>
> set obs 500
> gen r=_n
> gen t=runiform()
> egen q=mean(t)
>
>
> tw (line t r, sort) (line q r,sort)-->works fine
>
> local r="(line t r, sort)"
> local y="(line q r,sort)"
>
> . di "`y'"
> (line q r,sort)
>
> . di "`r'"
> (line t r, sort)
>
> . local m "`y' " "`r'"
>
> . di "`m'"
> (line q r,sort) (line t r, sort)
>
> . tw "`m'"
> line ( is not a twoway plot
> type
> r(198);
>
>
> What is the correct positioning of the " ´ and `in this
> problem???
>
> Moleps
>
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