Re: st: RE: foreach command

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

Hi Megan,

Rather than using:
foreach 'var'
You should use:
foreach var

When you first create a local macro you shouldn't use the single quotes - these are only used when you want to replace the macro name with its contents.

Furthermore, when you reference it later the first quote needs to be a left quote: ` rather than '

If you just want to -summarize- four variables you don't need a loop - -summarize- accepts a varlist. Therefore you can just use:
summarize total_IS_0 free_IS_0 total_PCS_0 free_PCS_0

I don't understand your question about drop down selections - are you talking about using a dialog box? If you want to include a bunch of variable names in a command you can just double-click on them in the variables window, or if they're sequential in the dataset you can use a hyphen. See -help varlist-

Finally, when asking a new question please start a new thread rather than replying to an old one - see section 2.2 of the Statalist FAQ.

Phil

On 13/12/2012, at 11:26 AM, megan rossi <megan_rossi@msn.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am trying to use the loop function on a set of pre -existing variables 
> variable 1) total_IS_0
> variable 2) free_IS_0 
> Variable 3) total_PCS_0 
> Variable 4) free_PCS_0 
> My syntax is....
> foreach 'var' of varlist total_IS_0 free_IS_0 total_PCS_0 free_PCS_0 {
> summarize 'var'
> }
> I have stat 12 and it is coming up with r 198 invalid name... I am not sure what is wrong with my syntax? Also is there a way to incorporate this loop function with the drop down selections option or is it only avaliable with manual entry?
> Cheers,
> 
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>> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:25:34 -0500
>> Subject: Re: st: fixed effects quantile regression
>> From: jvverkuilen@gmail.com
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> JVerkuilen (Gmail) <jvverkuilen@gmail.com>:
>>> -suest- does not work with -qreg-.
>> 
>> :(
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Lisa Marie Yarnell <lisayarnell@yahoo.com>:
>>> On -qreg- with FE, there are many different forms, all interpreted differently.
>>> See e.g.
>>> http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/2012/RAND_WR710-2.pdf
>>> for a good review of how people have tackled it.
>> 
>> That's a nice reference, thanks.
>> 
>> Jay
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