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.

Change row name mat stata. Older versions of stata. Mat li z symmetric z 3 3 x y z a 1 b 1 1 c 1 1 1. In contrast the question mark stands for a single character in a variable name. Row names returns a data frame with the row names changed.

Prior to that some other commands such as the following were available. You can then save the struct back out to the mat file with the struct flag. If you load the mat file into a struct i e. Computing column row means mat cm c rowsof a mat lis cm cm 1 2 c1 c2 r1 1 1 6666667 horizontal concatenation.

Row names is similar to rownames for arrays and it has a method that calls rownames for an array argument. 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. 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. 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.

Matrcrename z row 3 stata. Matrcrename z col 3 some alternative. Mat li z symmetric z 3 3 x y z a 1 b 1 1 stata 1 1 1. In that case i will continue to use the solution suggested by stata tech support which changes value labels before any matrices are created.

But let me refer here to the stata help at help rename group. The tricks and shortcuts mentioned were introduced with stata 12 0. I have never before however seen a stata matrix whose row or column names begin with digits. Rename does not include the syntax variable unless that is a variable name.

Matrcrename z col 4 sas column out of range r 498. Start reading at row 2 use the macro variable from step 1 after an input statement. 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. 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.

Read the first row. No names informs stata whether variable names are included on the first line of the file roberto ferrer feb 7 16 at 23 54. This will work at least this far.