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Re: st: generate stata variables in mata and set the names from matrices
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: generate stata variables in mata and set the names from matrices
Date
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:36:57 +0100
Evidently a local macro defined in one place is not visible in another.
See a posting from Tuesday:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-04/msg01227.html
Nick
2011/4/29 Cyrus Levy <[email protected]>:
> I want to generate stata variables in mata, and set the names of those
> variables using a mata matrix. I use the code below which is supposed to
> work -it works when I enter the lines line by line-, but then when I run it
> in a do file, it doesn't work. It doesn't generate a HHI_R50 variable. It
> generates a HHI_R variable with no extension referring to the corresponding
> matrix value. What's wrong?
>
> ...
> mata
> ...
> radian=(50,75,200)
> for (rd=1; rd<=cols(radian); rd++) {
> ...
> st_matrix("radian", radian)
> st_numscalar("rd", rd)
> stata(`"local namer=radian[1,rd]"')
> stata("gen HHI_R`namer'=.")
> st_store(., "HHI_R`namer'", HHI_R)
> }
> end
> ...
>
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