Re: st: Locals and Mata Script execution

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Also

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-01/msg00876.html

In other words, your -st_matrix()- call each time round a loop can be
something like

st_matrix("stub" + strofreal(i), whatever)

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't try to do this. It's probably not impossible, but it is a small
> nightmare. Have a look at
>
> SJ-11-2 pr0052  . . . . Stata tip 100: Mata and the case of the missing macros
>         . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. Gould and N. J. Cox
>         Q2/11   SJ 11(2):323--324                                (no commands)
>         tip showing how to do the equivalent of Stata's macro
>         substitution in Mata
>
> Nick
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Bruno Boynard <bboynard@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm having trouble using Stata locals to run MATA scripts. I tried to
>> use the same code in different versions of Stata.
>>
>> The issue is that I want to create a series of numbered matrix like
>> M1, M2, ... Mn. For that, I'm creating a counter in a loop and using
>> this counter for numbering the matrix. Finally I'm using a Stata local
>> in order to execute a MATA script.
>>
>> Below is the final code (I've tried rewriting the code in different
>> ways but always with problems):
>>
>> mata
>>
>> s_total=10000
>> cR=55*s_total
>> lX=trunc(s_total/8000)+1
>> lZ=trunc(cR/8000)+1
>> i
>> for(i=1;i<=lX;i++) {
>>     c=i
>>     st_matrix("c",c)
>>     stata("local x=c[1,1]")
>>     stata("local M J(8000,5,0)")
>>     stata("local Z M`x'=`M'")
>>     `Z'
>> }
>>
>> end
>>
>> The main objective here is that I'd like to transfer a big Matrix (lX
>> lines in this point of the code and lZ in another) generated in Mata
>> to Stata database. To do that, I will split this Matrix in many others
>> and than export using a st_matrix in each one. I'm not using a st_view
>> because I'm generating matrix in MATA using different data bases and
>> the result is completely different from the original databases.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Bruno
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