Re: st: New version of -rsource- on SSC

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

Works fine.

e.g.,

I typed "rsource using bxd40_7.R, roptions(--vanilla)" and got the  
desired output to screen and PDFs of plots to Rplots.pdf.

Thanks,

-Dave
On Dec 3, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Newson, Roger B wrote:

> Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -rsource- package is now
> available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- or - 
> adoupdate-
> commands to do this.
>
> The -rsource- package is described as below my signature on my  
> website.
> The new version is updated to Stata Version 10. However, users of  
> Stata
> 9 can still download the Stata 9 version from my website by typing
>
> net from "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata9/";
>
> in Stata, and selecting -rsource-.
>
> The new version also incorporates a new default setting for the
> -rpath()- option (if the global macro -Rterm_path- is not specified),
> which is now -rpath("/usr/bin/r")- in non-Windows operating
> environments, and is still -rpath("Rterm.exe")- in Windows operation
> environments. I have not yet tested this improvement in non-Windows
> environments, so please let me know if there are any problems. I would
> like to thank Kit Baum for sugggesting this improvement, and David  
> Airey
> and Michael Hanson for raising the platform-independence issue.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
>
> Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------
> package rsource from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------
>
> 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: 02december2008
>      Stata-Version: 10
>
> INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to
> install)
>      rsource.ado
>      rsource.sthlp
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------
> (click here to return to the previous screen)
>
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