Display MATA matrix?

[Tim Umbach]

Hi all,

I've a maybe somewhat trivial question, but one I couldn't google the answer to.
I'm trying to look at a matrix generated by a user-written command (spmat .., geoda , to be exact). There is an option to convert this into a MATA object (spmat getmatrix). So I now have this object, but how do I look at it? In STATA I would use matrix list myobj. Does something like this exist for MATA? If not, what command would you use to turn it into a .dta file (or normal STATA matrix) ?

If you could help me here I would be grateful.

Tim Umbach

[Christophe Kolodziejczyk]

The help says

Copy the contiguity matrix contained in the spmat object cobj to the Mata matrix mymat
. spmat getmatrix cobj mymat

so for the present example type

mata:mymat

to show mymat in Mata
See help m1_first for details above invoking Mata.

[Tim Umbach]

Thanks a lot. I know that was a little bit of a silly question, but I couldn't find this in the help.

All the best,

Tim Umbach