Re: st: AW: RE: local macro

["Mary E. Mackesy-Amiti" <mmamiti@uic.edu>]

Thank you, that solves it.

Martin Weiss wrote:
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> " Thus in fact your do-file will have created these macros;"
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> So if Mary ran the _entire_ code between the two dashed lines in her post,
> the -macro-s should work as expected. Her choice of words "...a do file..."
> seems to suggest that this is indeed what is going on, so there should be no
> problem. If she interrupted execution, and then resumed for the second
> -gllamm- call, her -local-s would not be around...
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>
> HTH
> Martin
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Nick Cox
> Gesendet: Freitag, 9. April 2010 17:13
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: st: RE: local macro
>
> 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
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 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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Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, Ph.D.
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University of Illinois at Chicago
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