Storing tabulated results in .dta (from spatlsa)

[Tim Umbach]

Hi all,

I'm using spatlsa to calculate local spatial autocorrelation measures, which gives me a value for every observation in my cross-sectional panel. I would now like to store them in a .dta-file to use them for mapping. Do you now how to do this? I've tried:

return matrix m1= r(Moran)
non r-class program may not set r()
r(151);

and

. matrix mor1 =get(r(Moran))
matrix r(Moran) not found
r(111);

This resulted in the error codes displayed. The last one is especially weird, because when I run return list, I get:

. return list
matrices:
              r(Moran) :  402 x 5

Alternatively, spatlsa also has a built-in mapping function. But this just produces a blank graph when I use it with the map() option.
So if anybody has an idea how to solve either issue, I would be very grateful.

All the best,

Tim Umbach

[Tim Umbach]

Nevermind, I've found the solution. This works for me (for some weird reason):

. matrix m1 =r(Moran)
. svmat m1, names(matnames)

I sometimes find the whole matrix and object system of STATA quite confusing.