Re: st: Assigning value of a function to a local macro

[Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net>]

min() doesn't do what you think it does. It's more for this kind of thing:
gen newvar=min(var1, var2, var3)
or
gen newvar=min(var1, var1[_n-1])
or
summarize price
display min(r(mean), r(p50))

To get the lowest value of the variable year in the dataset, I would suggest:
summarize year, meanonly
local byear=r(min)

Phil

On 10/05/2012, at 7:40 PM, Navid Asgari wrote:

> Hi Statalist,
> 
> I am trying to assign the value of a function to a local macro, but I get "Invalid Syntax"?
> 
> 
> I type:
> 
> local byear=min(year)
> 
> year is the variable whose minimum has to be saved in the local macro "byear"
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> Navid
> 
> 
> 
> 
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