Re: st: mata within the loop does not work

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Fri, 14/1/11, Oleksandr Shepotylo wrote:
> I have the following code to run 500 Monte Carlo
> iterations
> 
> forvalues i=1(1)500  {
>     use data, clear
>     ...
>     mata:
>     ...
>     end
>     ...
> }
> 
> The loop never starts and I get the error r(1). 

The trick is to put whatever you want to do in Mata
in a Mata function, and call that Mata function 
within your Stata loop. Below is a silly example:

*----------- begin example -----------
clear all
mata
void foobar(real scalar a) {
    "hello world " + strofreal(a)
}
end

mata foobar(1)

forvalues i= 1/10 {
	mata foobar(`i')
}

*------------ end example --------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see: 
http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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