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Re: st: Load data using macro
From
William Buchanan <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Load data using macro
Date
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:19:32 -0400
Hi Gareth,
Your question is too vague for anyone to provide a direct answer to your question. There could be several potential problems with the code not working, but without showing _EXACTLY_ what you typed and _EXACTLY_ what Stata returned, there isn't a way to help. You could try to use -ls- to see if the file exists in the current directory, you may also want to reference the file name with compound double quotes : use `"`depvar'.dta"', or there could be several other issues causing the failure. Either way, the more information you are able to provide the easier it is for others to help you.
For example:
sysuse auto
loc depvar price
save `depvar'.dta, replace
use `depvar', clear
Does exactly what it is that you said you are having difficulty doing.
HTH,
Billy
On Jun 13, 2013, at 9:57 AM, G. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am able to save files using the name of a variable in a macro (in this case my dependent variable
>
> So when I type
>
> save `depvar', replace
>
> it saves a file with the name of the dependent variable as my filename.
>
> Unfortunately when loading data
>
> use `depvar'
> doesn't work. Any ideas how you can load data using names defined by macros?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Gareth
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