Re: st: How do i substitute the return local of program in the if expression of the egen command?

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Tue, 30/3/10, A Loumiotis wrote:
> I have written a program (with the name andpve) that
> generates an expression of the form:
> 
> var1>=0 & var2>=0 & ... & varN>=0
> 
> and returns this value as a local with name r(andpve).
> 
> I then want to use r(andpve) in another progam (rowctotal)
> where U substitute it in the if expression of the egen command.
> 
> egen `left'_a = rowtotal(`right') if r(andpve), missing
> egen `left'_b = rowmin(`right') if !(r(andpve))

egen `left'_a = rowtotal(`right') if `r(andpve)', missing
egen `left'_b = rowmin(`right') if !(`r(andpve)')

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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> 
> But the egen command does not seem understand the r(andpve)
> as an if
> expression or the !(r(andpve)) as an if expression.
> 
> What did I do wrong?  I'm new to Stata.  The code is
> below.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Antonis Loumiotis
> Athens, Greece
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> ---------
> program rowctotal, rclass
>     version 11
> gettoken left right: 0
> capture drop `left'
> andpve `right'
>     di r(andpve)
>     egen `left'_a = rowtotal(`right') if r(andpve),
> missing
>     egen `left'_b = rowmin(`right') if !(r(andpve))
>     egen `left' = rowtotal(`left'_*), missing
>     *drop `left'_*
> end
> 
> program andpve, rclass
>     local k = 1
>     while "``k''" != "" {
>     local ++k
>     }
> local --k
> local i = 1
> local andpve ""
> while `i' <= `k'-1 {
>     local andpve "`andpve'``i''>=0 & "
>     local ++i
> }
> local andpve "`andpve'``i''>=0"
> return local andpve `andpve'
> end
> 
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