Re: st: Mata and do files

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Not a problem; in any case I was evidently not giving enough detail to
be completely clear.

Nick

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
<tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I see. Sorry about the mix-up then.
>
> T
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Quite so, and I didn't say otherwise. I am replying to Alex's question
>> addressed to me of why I recommended that Alex use -tokens()-, which
>> is explicit below.
>>
>> I am pointing out that doing without -tokens()- does not work with
>> 10.1, but without experiment I can not be absolutely sure that
>> -st_view()- is not more indulgent in 11 or 12.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
>> <tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nick,
>>>
>>> That does not appear to be the code I sent to the list in my (Wed, Aug
>>> 10, 2011 at 2:22 PM) posting. Here it is again:
>>>
>>> /******************************/
>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>> capture mata mata drop theta()
>>> mata
>>> // mata set matastrict on
>>> mata set matastrict off
>>>
>>> // define theta() function
>>> real scalar theta()
>>> {
>>> st_view(a = ., ., tokens("price length weight"))
>>> a_cov = variance(a)
>>> a_eigen = symeigensystem(a_cov, X = ., L = .)
>>> return(L[1]/sum(L))
>>> }
>>> theta()
>>> end
>>> /******************************/
>>>
>>> T
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I have 12, but it's at my workplace, and I'm not.
>>>>
>>>> . sysuse auto
>>>> (1978 Automobile Data)
>>>>
>>>> . mata
>>>> ------------------------------------------------- mata (type end to exit) -----
>>>> : st_view(a = ., ., "price length weight")
>>>> variable price length weight not found
>>>>               st_view():  3500  invalid Stata variable name
>>>>                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error
>>>> r(3500);
>>>>
>>>> : end
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> . about
>>>>
>>>> Stata/SE 10.1 for Windows
>>>> Born 10 Jun 2010
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
>>>> <tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Nick,
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't have 12 either. That code was from a fully-updated 11.2.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I have just checked with my 10.1 and it seems to go through
>>>>> without problems.
>>>>>
>>>>> T
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> It didn't work for me in Stata 10.1. (My machine with Stata 12 is a mile away.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Alex Olssen <alex.olssen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Thanks for the help!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tirthankar your solution works perfectly - the code works
>>>>>>> interactively and from a do file.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One question though, could you explain to me why I need to turn matastrict off?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nick, you said "price length weight" is not an acceptable argument for
>>>>>>> -st_view()- however typing the following interactively in a new Stata
>>>>>>> session suggests otherwise.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>>>>>> mata
>>>>>>> st_view(a=., ., "price length weight")
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am I missing something?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Alex
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11 August 2011 09:23, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "price length weight" is not an acceptable argument for -st_view()-.
>>>>>>>> You need to tokenize it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I imagine that the do-file approach requires you to leave Mata with an
>>>>>>>> -end- statement.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Alex Olssen <alex.olssen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Dear Nick,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You are absolutely correct - it was Statalist.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am not sure what you mean by "try tokens("price length weight")."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I looked at the help file and then tried the following, which again
>>>>>>>>> works interactively but not from a do file...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>>>>>>>> mata
>>>>>>>>> real scalar theta()
>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>> st_view(a = ., ., tokens("price length weight"))
>>>>>>>>> a_cov = variance(a)
>>>>>>>>> a_eigen = symeigensystem(a_cov, X = ., L = .)
>>>>>>>>> return(L[1]/sum(L))
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>> theta()
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 10 August 2011 23:54, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> It's not Stata that bounces your emails; it's Statalist!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Try
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  tokens("price length weight")
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Alex Olssen <alex.olssen@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Apologies to anybody who gets this message twice - I just got an email
>>>>>>>>>>> from Stata telling me my first message was bounced.  I checked the
>>>>>>>>>>> archive and it doesn't appear to have arrived correctly.  In any
>>>>>>>>>>> case...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I am trying to learn some Mata and am having difficult running Mata
>>>>>>>>>>> code from a do file.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> For example I can use the following code interactively, but if I try
>>>>>>>>>>> run it from the do-file editor I get error r(3000).  I have looked
>>>>>>>>>>> around for an answer in [M] and the Statalist archives to no avail.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>>>>>>>>>> mata
>>>>>>>>>>> real scalar theta()
>>>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>>> st_view(a = ., ., "price length weight")
>>>>>>>>>>> a_cov = variance(a)
>>>>>>>>>>> a_eigen = symeigensystem(a_cov, X = ., L = .)
>>>>>>>>>>> return(L[1]/sum(L))
>>>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>>> theta()
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
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