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Re: st: loop over variable groups (not individual variables)
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Amanda Fu <[email protected]>
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Re: st: loop over variable groups (not individual variables)
Date
Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:43:01 -0400
Hi Tirthankar,
Thank you so much for your helping me out. What you suggested works very well.
Best wishes,
Amanda
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Tirthankar Chakravarty
<[email protected]> wrote:
> You are almost there:
> /*********************************************/
> clear*
> // generate some data
> set obs 100
> foreach x of newlist va vb vc vd ve vf vg vh vi {
> g `x' = runiform()
> }
>
> // create the locals
> local v1 "va "
> local v2 "va vb vc"
> local v3 "vd "
> local v4 "vd ve vf"
> local v5 "vg "
> local v6 "vg vh vi"
>
> // regressions
> forv i=1/6 {
> reg `v`i''
> }
> /*********************************************/
>
> T
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Amanda Fu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to loop over the following set of variable groups (
>> instead of individual variables). But my syntax gives looping over
>> individual variables. May I have some suggestion on how to fix my
>> command? Thank you for your time!
>>
>> ************define variable list *********************
>> local v1 "va "
>> local v2 "va vb vc"
>> local v3 "vd "
>> local v4 "vd ve vf"
>> local v5 "vg "
>> local v6 "vg vh vi"
>>
>> My goal is to loop over v1,v2,...,v6, like this:
>> reg va
>> reg va vb vc
>> reg vd
>> reg vd ve vf
>> reg vg
>> reg vg vh vi
>>
>> That is, when it comes to v2, I want to indicate "va vb vc" together
>> instead of looping over va vb vc one by one. I have tried the
>> following 2 ways. But both of them gives loop over each variable,
>> instead of looping over local list.
>>
>> ********1**************
>> local i=1
>> foreach v in `v`i' {
>> reg y `v'
>> local i=`i'+1
>> }
>>
>> *********2************
>> local i=1
>> foreach v in local v`i' {
>> reg y `v'
>> local i=`i'+1
>> }
>>
>> Best,
>> Amanda
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>
>
>
> --
> Tirthankar Chakravarty
> [email protected]
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>
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