Re: AW: st: RE: local macro

[Ekaterina Hertog <ekaterina.hertog@sociology.ox.ac.uk>]

Dear Martin,
Thanks a lot for the advice. I think using global macros and dropping 
them all at the end of each do file will serve my purposes best,
sincerely yours,
Ekaterina

Martin Weiss wrote:
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> " I would like to be able 
> to run the section of the file which sets up the data and defines the 
> local macro and then some regressions using that macro, but not all as 
> specified in the do-file. Is that possible?"
>
>
> Commenting in and out with the tools in -help comments- is probably the best
> way to achieve your goal w/o resorting to -global-s. What is so bad about
> them, btw? You can erase them at any point via -ma drop _all-.
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> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Ekaterina
> Hertog
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. April 2010 17:58
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Betreff: Re: st: RE: local macro
>
> Dear Nick,
> thank you very much for the clarification. Sorry, what would be the 
> crucial details I have not mentioned and that could make my problem 
> clearer to the Stata community?
> I am just trying to avoid using global macros as I am afraid that at 
> some point I will forget I have defined one already and it will lead to 
> confusion.
> I only want to use my local macro within one do-file, I am not using 
> -programs- as defined by Stata. I would like not to have to run the 
> whole of it each time as it takes a lot of time. I would like to be able 
> to run the section of the file which sets up the data and defines the 
> local macro and then some regressions using that macro, but not all as 
> specified in the do-file. Is that possible?
> Ekaterina
>
>
> Nick Cox wrote:
>   
> > This isn't very clear to me, as you give lots of details but not all the
> > crucial ones! 
> > But the mention of a do file suggests that you are defining a local
> > macro and one place and trying to use it in another. 
> >
> > -local- means precisely that. 
> >
> > Local macros are local to one of 
> > 1. an interactive session 
> > 2. a -program- defined as such
> > 3. a do file
> > 4. a do file editor window, whether saved as a file or not
> > and are not visible outside any such context. 
> >
> > It may well be that globals will serve your purpose better. 
> >
> > Nick 
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
> >
> > Ekaterina Hertog
> >
> > I was wondering if you could help me clarify something about local 
> > macros. I use Stata 11. I have a log do file with probably 100 
> > regressions. I am essentially testing 2 models the 2nd one being an 
> > extension of the first in a sense that I use all the variables that 
> > proved important in the first model and add some new ones. To make 
> > editing easier once I finalised the first model I created a local macro 
> > which is a list of variables used in the first model and used it when 
> > running out the regressions of the second model. It works fine if I run 
> > my whole do file continuously. However, when I want to run just a few
> > lines:
> > e.g. the line with a local macro and some regressions a few paragraphs 
> > down which use the macro in question
> > Stata does not seem to recognise my local macro.
> > Here is a sample of my commands:
> > local streglist prsexratio2039 citotalgen osaka age agesq height weight 
> > income smoker withfam university goodhealth face3 sightprobl 
> > strongintnumb intsexratio
> > streg `streglist' nodes desartokyo desosaka mindesinc if age<=40, 
> > dist(gamma) nolog
> > I just wanted to confirm is it possible to use a local macro the way I 
> > was trying to and in that case what am I doing wrong? Or is it 
> > impossible and I should set a global macro instead?
> >
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Ekaterina Hertog (née Korobtseva)
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University of Oxford

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