Change Row Name Mat Stata

Read the first row.

Change row name mat stata.

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. 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. Older versions of stata. Row names returns a data frame with the row names changed.

Rename does not include the syntax variable unless that is a variable name. In contrast the question mark stands for a single character in a variable name. If you load the mat file into a struct i e. I have never before however seen a stata matrix whose row or column names begin with digits.

Using stata mat c 2 1 5 1 3 4 5 4 2 mat lis c symmetric c 3 3 c1 c2 c3 r1 2 r2 1 3 r3 5 4 2 mat ct c mat lis ct symmetric ct 3 3 r1 r2 r3 c1. Prior to that some other commands such as the following were available. Start reading at row 2 use the macro variable from step 1 after an input statement. 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.

Matrcrename z col 3 some alternative. This will work at least this far. Matrcrename z row 3 stata. Transform the values to valid variable names strip out blanks invalid characters shorten load them into a macro variable.

Matrcrename z col 4 sas column out of range r 498. Mat li z symmetric z 3 3 x y z a 1 b 1 1 c 1 1 1. Row names is similar to rownames for arrays and it has a method that calls rownames for an array argument. Computing column row means mat cm c rowsof a mat lis cm cm 1 2 c1 c2 r1 1 1 6666667 horizontal concatenation.

Mat li z symmetric z 3 3 x y z a 1 b 1 1 stata 1 1 1. You can then save the struct back out to the mat file with the struct flag. 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.

Which names matrix tokenize names local where newname local newnames matrix which names matrix newnames end examples. No names informs stata whether variable names are included on the first line of the file roberto ferrer feb 7 16 at 23 54. Both import excel and import delimited will let you specify that the first row contains variable names.