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RE: st: Assigning value of a function to a local macro
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: Assigning value of a function to a local macro
Date
Thu, 10 May 2012 16:59:18 +0100
Phil's solution doesn't involve scalars at all.
I don't think your side-note is correct. At least, show us an example with real data.
Nick
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Navid Asgari
Thanks Phil! It is a good solution to use scalars.
But, on a side note, min() can work on one variable too
e.g.:
generate minv=min(variable1)
Phil Clayton
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)
On 10/05/2012, at 7:40 PM, Navid Asgari wrote:
> 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"
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