Re: st: statweave

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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I think if reproducible research is made more accessible and easy, and  
yet flexible enough for both PDF and HTML reporting, more people will  
do it, rather than copy and paste. That's a worthy goal.

-Dave

On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Stas Kolenikov wrote:

> Phil Schumm presented something along the similar lines of combining
> LaTeX code with Stata code at one of the NASUGs, two or three years
> ago.
>
> I am happy with producing all my tables using -estout- and then
> \input{}ing them. I am OK with hitting some buttons twice.
>
> The thing is, if a person has figured out LaTeX, they would be able to
> figure out -file- and all that to produce whatever formatting they
> need. But I would guess that on statalist, 75% of people copy/paste
> their results to Word, and it is evene worse in the Big World of Stata
> users where the ratio will more likely be 90% to 10%. The LaTeX base
> is there, it is active, but hardly overwhelming. I would imagine that
> with R users, the situation is likely to be reverse: LaTeX is pretty
> much a prerequisite to writing a dissertation with more than 10
> formulas in it... and most (bio)statistics or econometrics
> dissertations would probably exceed that limit. And that's where R is
> sitting.
>
> On 2/23/09, David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> > .
> >
> > the longer version....
> >
> > http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Talks/litdoc.pdf
> >
> > In this thread I'm opening discussion of what is available in terms  
> > of
> > approaches comparable to Sweave with Stata. This is obviously not  
> > just for
> > LaTeX since ODT formats were mentioned in StatWeave above, but XML  
> > really
> > opens the can.
> >
> > -Davee
> >
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2009, at 8:28 AM, David Airey wrote:
> >
> >
> > > .
> > >
> > > Here one of R's own pushes to forget about Sweave in favor of XML.  
> > > That
> > might be a direction for Stata to go in, since XML is open and all  
> > we might
> > think about is a comparable routine to Sxslt
> > (http://www.omegahat.org/Sxslt/).
> > >
> > http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Talks/litdocbrief.pdf
> > > -Dave
> > >
> > > On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:27 AM, David Airey wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > > From the developer's page, which makes little sense to me as to why
> > there is no direct support on the Mac, as the format of the graph  
> > can be PDF
> > or EPS, which is what is required for LaTeX. I guess he is talking  
> > about
> > OpenOffice.
> > > > Stata:
> > > > -----
> > > > * Available graphics formats are platform-dependent:
> > > > Linux: EPS only
> > > > Mac: PDF and EPS
> > > > Windows: PNG and EPS
> > > > Thus, except on Windows, Stata graphics are NOT directly supported
> > > > for ODT source/target files, because ODT does not support EPS or  
> > > > PDF.
> > > > For the same reason, for a LaTeX source file, you can't directly  
> > > > get
> > > > graphics when the target is PDF.  One way to work around this is to
> > > > configure appropriate graphics-format converters (Manual Section  
> > > > 6.4).
> > > > For Linux LaTeX with a PDF target, an alternative is to make the  
> > > > DVI
> > > > target, then convert that to PDF using dvipdf, dvipdfm, or similar.
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:55 PM, David Airey wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > .
> > > > >
> > > > > I did find this of course, but wanted to know about real world
> > experiences...
> > > > > http://www.stata.com/meeting/italy08/rising_2008.pdf
> > > > >
> > > > > I am also wondering if Bill Rising is improving the rough edges of
> > StatWeave with regard to Stata use alluded to in the talk.
> > > > > -Dave
> > > > >
> > > > > On Feb 22, 2009, at 9:47 PM, David Airey wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > .
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Has anyone used StatWeave
> > <http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~rlenth/StatWeave/> to make
> > LaTeX documents on Apple OS X Leopard with Stata 10? Has anyone used
> > StatWeave with Stata at all?
> > > > > > -Dave
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