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Re: st: Returning stata users wish list
From
Steinar Fossedal <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Returning stata users wish list
Date
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:05:53 +0100
Thank you for your reply Chris, it is good to be home again.
As to your question on the need for <valuelist> to write rows directly
to file, the purpose was to write values or macros directly to file,
not values from the current dataset. E.g. after doing a forward
selection, the results of each model could easily be written to file
this way.
In general though, I do miss the ability to manipulate datafiles
directly, my wish above is an example I remember wanting in the past
(and will be needing in the future).
Cheers,
-Steinar
On 18 March 2011 01:00, Christopher Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Glad to hear that you have returned from the Dark Side.
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> Re: - write data row directly to existing data file.(appendto filename
> <varlist> <valuelist>
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> Note that Mata's fopen() function can open a file for append; it would tbe quite straightforward to write a Stata command that would take one observation and append it to an existing file. I'm not sure what you mean by 'valuelist', though: don't variables in memory already have values?
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> Re: Surface plot / heat map, or even better, full 3d grid plots.
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> One of my grumbles at every SUG meeting. But just today, I posted Austin Nichols' hmap (heatmap) on the SSC Archive.
> A step in the right direction, but I still want heatmap-style contour plots.
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> Re: ability to set default values for programs/do/ado file parameters.
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> help syntax. You can do this now.
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> Re: Stata grade documentation on how to build custom egen functions.
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> To quote from [U] 18, Programming Stata,
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> "If you want even more, we offer courses over the Internet on Stata programming; see [U] 3.7.1 NetCourses.
> Baum (2009) provides a wealth of practical knowledge related to Stata programming."
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> Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
> An Introduction to Stata Programming | http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
> An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata | http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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