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st: RE: cosmetics vs statistics


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: cosmetics vs statistics
Date   Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:23:29 -0000

FEIVESON, ALAN
> 
> After following this thread, I'm beginning to think Stata 
> Corp. ought to
> offer a new "flavor" of Stata, say Stata NG (nongraphical), 
> which has all
> the new commands, etc of  Stata 8, yet retains the simpler 
> (but still very
> serviceable) graphing characteristics of Stata 7. On the 
> other hand, if the
> major differnence betwen Stat 7 and 8 is the graphics, I'm 
> not sure I really
> want to upgrade. 
> 

This should be the least of your worries. 

Under version control, all the old stuff is there. 
You can (e.g.) just say -graph7- wherever you 
said -graph-. 

Stata Corp is not in the business of breaking all 
the .do files and .ado files based on previous 
graphics, as virtually all users would be hopping 
mad at that, me among them. 

Nick 
[email protected] 
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