Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
st: RE: Re: FORTRAN
From
"Lachenbruch, Peter" <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: Re: FORTRAN
Date
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:00:43 -0700
With all the comments about reading stuff into FORTRAN, I think it would be simpler to do the coding in Stata. Is must be very esoteric to need specific FORTRAN capabilities...
Tony
Peter A. Lachenbruch
Department of Public Health
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 541-737-3832
FAX: 541-737-4001
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Coveney
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 6:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Re: FORTRAN
Stata SpecialEdition wrote:
I have been using STATA for two years now and I LOVE it. I now need to
do some more complicated estimation in a language called FORTRAN. Is
it possible to read my STATA files in FORTRAN? A colleague said it was
impossible and I would have just save it as an ASCII. Is this the best
way? I just wanted to check whether this is the case with some STATA
(and hopefully FORTRAN experts).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The format of Stata's dataset files (.dta) are published, and so, if you're up
to it, you probably *could* read them with a suitable FORMAT / READ statement
(or set of FORMAT / READ statements) in Fortran. Like your colleague, though,
I question the worthiness of such an undertaking for any applications that
you're likely to encounter.
I'd go with ASCII, just as your colleague says.
Joseph Coveney
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/