st: Re: log only results of r-class commands

["Dr. Stephen Rothenberg" <srothenberg@mda.cinvestav.mx>]

Thank you Sergiy for the code, which I will try adapting.  I appreciate the 
advice Maarten.  The hundreds of lines of commands appearing in my logs are 
from the do file limited to descriptive statistic production, the equivalent 
of your "analysis.do" (see example below).

Roy, I include below a piece of my analysis do-file to give you the flavor 
of the task.

The descriptive analysis extensively uses -fsum- (fsum.ado Full SUMmary 
program v 2.4.0 fw 2may05), contributed by Fred Wolfe, as it prints variable 
labels instead of variable names.

I would like to preserve the comments in the log, since they identify 
analyses, but could live without that feature.  Far easier to add a few 
table headers to table groups than to edit out hundreds of lines of command 
code.

The variable [gradoesc06] identifies the school room, of which there can be 
up to 12.  There are 4 schools in all, but I am keeping the "school" files 
separate until the second and further data waves are recorded.  Please note 
that the line breaks in this snippet are sometimes different than in the 
do-file, in which line breaks within a command are always terminated with 
/*.  All secondary variable creation and labeling is done in other do-files.

do file fragment:

version 10

clear all

log using C:\............\Leone_v.smcl, replace

use C:\............\cuestionario_esc_leones_v_R.dta

quietly set more off

* ESCUELA LEONES_V

* Conducta con sus compañeros

bysort gradoesc06: fsum _2008pree1_1intcomp _2008pree1_4ayucomp 
_2008pree1_9disfrpart /*
*/_2008pree1_12sabesc, stats(n mean sd min max) uselabel

* TOTAL Conducta con sus compañeros

fsum _2008pree1_1intcomp _2008pree1_4ayucomp _2008pree1_9disfrpart /*
*/_2008pree1_12sabesc, stats(n mean sd min max) uselabel

* Conducta en la aula

bysort  gradoesc06: fsum  _2008pree1_2paract _2008pree1_3genact 
_2008pree1_5muesprob /*
*/_2008pree1_6creaprob, stats(n mean sd min max) uselabel

* TOTAL Conducta en la aula

fsum  _2008pree1_2paract _2008pree1_3genact _2008pree1_5muesprob /*
*/_2008pree1_6creaprob, stats(n mean sd min max) uselabel


* Desempeño en la aula

bysort  gradoesc06: fsum  _2008pree1_7asumresp _2008pree1_8partproy /*
*/_2008pree1_10exprclarhabl _2008pree1_11exprclarescr _2008pree1_13intrescr 
/*
*/_2008pree1_14instroral _2008pree1_15ordlogpen _2008pree1_16explid /*
*/_2008pree1_17utbiblau _2008pree1_18leemas _2008pree1_19traematcomp, /*
*/stats(n mean sd min max) uselabel

* TOTAL Desempeño en la aula

fsum _2008pree1_7asumresp _2008pree1_8partproy /*
*/_2008pree1_10exprclarhabl _2008pree1_11exprclarescr _2008pree1_13intrescr 
/*
*/_2008pree1_14instroral _2008pree1_15ordlogpen _2008pree1_16explid /*
*/_2008pree1_17utbiblau _2008pree1_18leemas _2008pree1_19traematcomp, /*
*/stats(n mean sd min max) uselabel

* RESUMEN de las tres escalas

bysort  gradoesc06: fsum cond_comp cond_aula desemp_aula, stat(n mean sd min 
max) uselabel

--------snip-------

* DIFERENCIAS significativas entre aulas

kwallis cond_comp, by(gradoesc06)

kwallis cond_aula, by(gradoesc06)

kwallis desemp_aula, by(gradoesc06)

------snip------

Thanks for your help,

Steve Rothenberg
CINVESTAV-Merida
Yucatan, Mexico



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Stephen Rothenberg" <srothenberg@mda.cinvestav.mx>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:07 PM
Subject: log only results of r-class commands



> I am setting up do-files in anticipation of running repetitive descriptive 
> statistics for a long-term project.  I will need to produce appendices that 
> contain these descriptive statistics, each of which will be scores of pages 
> long.
>
> My problem is logging the output of commands like -sum- or -fsum- so I can 
> print the appendix stats.  I'd like to produce output that contains only 
> the results of the commands in legible tables and my preceding comments 
> that identify them, without the tedious chore of editing out the commands 
> themselves. The commands run to nearly 400 lines in scattered places 
> throughout the log, despite using -bysort- to combine analyses.
>
> Stata includes such commands as -quietly- and the various -set output- 
> variations, all of which suppress results output.  The user-supplied 
> commands in the -estout- family and others do a great job in producing 
> tables of estimation output.  They do not work with descriptive commands, 
> which are r-class commands.  Stata allows me to open two logs 
> simultaneously, one showing commands, comments, results, and error 
> messages, the other showing only the commands, but not only results and 
> comments.
>
> I've searched the FAQs, the ssc contributions, and Statalist, without 
> success.
>
> Does anyone know:
> 1. A way to log only results of r-class commands in presentable tables?
> 2. If not, can someone provide a method that will do this?
> 3. If nothing now exists, will StataCorp consider making output only 
> logging possible in future releases?
>
> Steve Rothenberg
> CINVESTAV-Merida
> Yucatan, Mexico