st: RE: new version of -rct_minim- available

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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I believe the two lines in rct_minim.ado that read

matsort H`k'_tmp `i'

in rct_minim.ado  could be replaced by

mata: st_matrix("H_`k'_tmp", sort(st_matrix(H`k'_tmp), `i'))

which would obviate the need to trundle through many lines of code in -matsort.ado-, removing that dependency on a separate routine. For example:

clear all
sysuse auto
mkmat price mpg weight, mat(a)   
tempname b
mat `b' = a
loc cs 3
matsort a `cs'
mata: st_matrix("`b'", sort(st_matrix("`b'"), `cs'))
mat c = a , `b' 
mat l c

Kit


Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Stata Programming   |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata   |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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