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Re: st: Using Sample Command with Scalar Not Number
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Using Sample Command with Scalar Not Number
Date
Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:09:35 -0500
You can also use a local macro
*******************
local a 5
sample `a', count
******************
Steve
On Jan 20, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
sample `=scalar(A)', count
will ensure that -sample- sees the value of scalar A because the evaluation
= scalar(A)
takes place before -sample- gets to work. See -help macro- under
expansion_optr.
The -scalar()- ensure no clash with variable names starting with "A".
Nick
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Maisie Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am running a loop of code in which I'd like to use the sample
> command, but instead of stating the specific number I want to sample
> I'd like to refer to a previously defined scalar.
>
> A simplified version of what I'm trying to do is:
>
> scalar A=5
> sample A, count
>
> However, when I run the code it says that it finds A when it is
> expecting a number. Is there a simple way to do this? Do I need to
> redefine the scalar somehow?
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