st: New package -rsource- on SSC

["Newson, Roger B" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package -rsource- is now available for
download from SSC. This should be done using the -ssc- command in Stata.

The -rsource- package is described as below on my website. By typing

rsource using ratz1.R

the user can run the R program -ratz1.R- from within Stata, and the
output will be echoed to the Stata log and/or Results window.

I would welcome any feedback about this command, especially from users
of non-Microsoft operating environments. -rsource- is intended to run
under all available operating environments, but I have only been able to
test it under my Windows/XP system. In the meantime, I would like to
thank Kit Baum for demonstrating that it can work under his Mac OS X
environment.

Best wishes

Roger


Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
Royal Brompton campus
Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
1B Manresa Road
London SW3 6LR
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk 
www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/

Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.


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package rsource from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata9
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TITLE
      rsource: Run R from inside Stata using an R source file

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The program rsource runs the Rterm command of R from inside Stata,
      using an R source file, if R is installed on the user's system.
      The output and/or the source file can be listed to the Stata log
file
      and/or to the Stata Results window in an interactive Stata
session.
      If the R directory on the user's system is not on the user's
default
      path, then the user must set the global macro Rterm_path to
contain
      the path for the Rterm command, possibly in the profile.do file
      (see on-line help for details).
      
      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 13june2007
      Stata-Version: 9

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to
install)
      rsource.ado
      rsource.hlp
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