Matrcrename z row 3 stata.
Change row name mat stata.
Row names is similar to rownames for arrays and it has a method that calls rownames for an array argument.
I have never before however seen a stata matrix whose row or column names begin with digits.
But let me refer here to the stata help at help rename group.
Prior to that some other commands such as the following were available.
Computing column row means mat cm c rowsof a mat lis cm cm 1 2 c1 c2 r1 1 1 6666667 horizontal concatenation.
My final goal is a tab delimited text file that will be imported into a word processor to create a table like the one below.
Mat li z symmetric z 3 3 x y z a 1 b 1 1 stata 1 1 1.
This will work at least this far.
In that case i will continue to use the solution suggested by stata tech support which changes value labels before any matrices are created.
Matrcrename z col 3 some alternative.
The tricks and shortcuts mentioned were introduced with stata 12 0.
The load option with output argument then your variables become fields of that struct which allows you to rename them renaming variables themselves is not a fun task.
Rename does not include the syntax variable unless that is a variable name.
Start reading at row 2 use the macro variable from step 1 after an input statement.
Mat li z symmetric z 3 3 x y z a 1 b 1 1 c 1 1 1.
Row names of the form 1 n for n 2 are stored internally in a compact form which might be seen from c code or by deparsing but never via row names or attr x row names.
See here note that stata won t let you name a variable 1960 1961 etc they can t begin with a number so i would go into the csv file or excel and manually rename them y1960 y1961 etc.
Row names returns a data frame with the row names changed.
Older versions of stata.
Transform the values to valid variable names strip out blanks invalid characters shorten load them into a macro variable.
Which names matrix tokenize names local where newname local newnames matrix which names matrix newnames end examples.
A quick review in the user manuals has not turned up anything to say that it is illegal but it is also clear from the text and all examples that stata matrix row and column names are often intended to match variable names and of course a variable name cannot.
Read the first row.
Both import excel and import delimited will let you specify that the first row contains variable names.
Matrcrename z col 4 sas column out of range r 498.
If you load the mat file into a struct i e.
No names informs stata whether variable names are included on the first line of the file roberto ferrer feb 7 16 at 23 54.
