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Re: st: Retrieving variable list from describe
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Retrieving variable list from describe
Date
Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:50:32 +0100
This in turn is incorrect, as Phil Schumm pointed out.
-describe, varlist- produces r(varlist)
The reason Sergiy is saying this is presumably that it was true for
some while that -describe- did not produce r(varlist), even
optionally, bu StataCorp did fix that a few years ago.
Nick
[email protected]
On 21 June 2013 20:29, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is incorrect:
> "...I know that describe provides an r(varlist) macro,..."
>
> Varlist can be obtained from ds, not des.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> sysuse auto
>> ds
>> ret list
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Barth Riley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> i would like to retrieve the list of variables matching a specification used
>>> with describe, e.g.:
>>>
>>> describe item*
>>>
>>> I know that describe provides an r(varlist) macro, yet I can seem to use or
>>> access it. For instance:
>>>
>>> foreach var in "`r(varlist)'" {
>>> ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> does nothing. I have also tried not enclosing `r(varlist)' in quotes . Does
>>> this only work in conjunction with the ds command?
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