st: basic feature requests

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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I'm growing my list. :)

(1) support for factors throughout Stata instead of xi

I feel this is a useful convenience feature. It is present is the  
other packages like SAS and R.

(2) support for unicode

Note that SPSS 16 had added this, along with a JAVA interface, Python  
scripting, and R plug ins. How many times have people asked for  
special characters in graphics? Stata graphics are the best on the  
market, except for this feature.

(3) robust reporting capability

Splus 8 from Insightful Corp has added an independent clinical trials  
analysis and reporting module completely conversant with SAS macros if  
needed. Duck and cover SAS.


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