st: RE: local macro

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Note that "local" means precisely that. Local macros are local to the
program, do-file, do-file editor session, or interactive session in
which they are defined and are not visible outside. 

Thus in fact your do-file will have created these macros; it is merely
that they will not be visible within your interactive session. 

There are various solutions to this. One is to write a program. Another
is to use globals. Yet another is to use -c_local-. In your case the
best will be to avoid using locals altogether and pick up the e()
results in your interactive session. 

The last has been called out "cutting out the middle macro", as the
macro serves no real purpose in code like this. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Mary E. Mackesy-Amiti

I am using Stata 10.1.  When I run the following commands from the 
command line I have no problem, but when I run them from a do file, the 
local macros are not created.  What am I missing?

Mary Ellen

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gllamm timeinj  fup6 , i(partid) nrf(2) eqs(cons slope2) nip(2) ip(f) 
fam(poi)
matrix a=e(b)
local ll= e(ll)
local k=e(k)

gllamm timeinj fup6 , i(partid) nrf(2) eqs(cons slope2) nip(3) ip(f) 
from(a) ///
    fam(poi) gateaux(-10 10 30) lf0(`k' `ll')
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