I agree with Sergiy's main point. In so far as I understand the problem,
doing everything in Stata seems by far the simplest approach, regardless
of OS.
However, -xml_tab- [sic] advertises itself as for MS Windows, so on the
face of it is not suitable for a Unix user.
Simlarly, -tabout-, despite several excellent features, is not in the
same game as (e.g.) -outreg2-. Perhaps Sergiy meant to say -estout-.
Whether that is so, -estout- certainly deserves a mention in this
company.
I think all extras mentioned are downloadable from SSC.
Nick
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Sergiy Radyakin
I am not sure if batch mode is really necessary here. Why don't you
loop the data files from within Stata in one do file, and then run
your processing do file. See help for foreach.
help foreach
-xml_tab- may be a useful command if you want to accumulate the
estimationg results from multiple estimations.
findit xml_tab
So the loop might look like this
foreach file in this.dta that.dta theother.dta {
** open file
use "`file'"
** prepare variables, filter observations, run probit, etc
do my-processing-do-file.do
** collect the results
xmltab whatever_parameters
}
see also two other similar commands -outreg2- and -tabout-:
findit outreg2
findit tabout
Marco Grazzi
> I am running a do file in Unix batch mode. I have used the suggestion
> on the FAQ: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/unix/batch.html
> The .do file performs 3 simple probit regressions.
>
> The stata .do file is run within a 'for' cycle (i.e. it is running
each
> time on a different database). At every loop, each time the stata
> do file is run, I want to store and append the results of these 3
> regression so that I can perform analysis afterwards (compute average,
> do some tests, etc). It is my understanding that I would need to
> perform this within the stata do file (probably with some pipe of
> strings, shell commands, or similar), but I don't really know how.
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