st: "bsample" and "set seed" together do not work!

[Daniele Pacifico <danielepacifico@yahoo.it>]

Dear Stata users,

I am working with the command "bsample"  and I discovered that the command "set 
seed #" stops "bsample" from drawing different samples from my data.. Here is an 
example:

___start example___
clear all
set obs 1000
drawnorm x
local r=6

forvalues i=1/`r'{
preserve
  bsample
  su x
  set seed 1234567890
restore
}


___end example___

I had this problem because I am writing an ado file that sets a seed when it 
runs.. However, I discovered that the seed I define within my ado file 

creates the problem I have shown you above (i.e. I cannot use bsample with the 
command defined in my ado file).. Do you have any advise about it? How can I 
"unset" the seed so as to allow it to vary randomly again with bsample?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Best,
Daniele


      


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