Re: st: generate stata variables in mata and set the names from matrices

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You must do more than change that one line! The references to `local'
need changing too.

But a better strategy is just to avoid using locals or globals
altogether and to do it the Mata way.

e.g.

clear
set obs 100
mata
x = J(100, 3, 42)
for (j=1; j<=cols(x); j++) {
	yname = "y" + strofreal(j)
	st_addvar("float", yname)
      st_store(., yname, x[,j])
}
end

See also Bill Gould at

<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.1101/Author/article-871.html>

and in due course Stata Tip 100 (Stata Journal in press).

Nick

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Cyrus Levy <levy.cyrus@gmail.com> wrote:
> I changed the line below
>
> stata(`"local namer=radian[1,rd]"')
>
> to
>
> stata(`"global namer=radian[1,rd]"')
>
> but it still doesn't work as I want... Line by line entry works this way as
> well.
> (by the way, there must be a shorter way to code what I want like 3 lines
> shorter but how)
>
>
> On 4/29/2011 5:36 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>>
>> 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<levy.cyrus@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> 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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