I think prefacing the -reg_n_hold- command with -noisily- should also work.
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danielle H. Ferry" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: st: RE: logging ouput from a called program
> Ok, I had to put the log statement inside reg_n_hold. I was hoping there
> was a way to do it from outside, but this is fine. Thanks.
>
> Nick Cox wrote:
>
> > The -log- is just echoing what your program
> > produces. It does nothing else. So you need
> > to change your program.
> >
> > -reg_n_hold- is presumably a program under your
> > control. I have two guesses.
> >
> > 1. It appears that it keeps quiet about
> > what it does; so, you may have to get inside that
> > program to change that behaviour.
> >
> > 2. Alternatively, this code you reproduce is
> > all within some
> >
> > quietly {
> >
> > }
> >
> > group, in which case prefixing -reg_n_hold- with
> > "noisily" may be sufficient.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Danielle H. Ferry
> >
> >>I've got the following inside a program:
> >>
> >> log using reg1_`1'_r`2'_m`3', replace;
> >> forval i = 1(1)4 {;
> >> di "";
> >> di "--> Outcome = `1'; Race = `2'; MarEduc = `i'";
> >> reg_n_hold `1' `2' `i' `3';
> >> };
> >> log close;
> >>
> >>Essentially, I do a bunch of stuff and want to log only this piece.
> >>"reg_n_hold" is another program which runs a specified
> >>regression. It is
> >>this output which I really want to log. But the log doesn't show the
> >>ouput for what "reg_n_hold" produces". Is there some way to force the
> >>log to see what is inside reg_n_hold?
> >
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