Dear Laura,
Stata 11 shows you a little animation in the status line near to caps
lock indicator when it is doing something. The animation stops when
your code stops. The only problem is that it continues when there is a
-more- condition and Stata expects your input (which is a bug from my
point of view) but in a sense - it is still executing a command, so
it's fine.
Also you may display the current iteration number, or better yet
percent-complete in the window title (if you have iterations):
window manage maintitle `"`=`i'/`maxi*100''%"'
Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Austin Nichols
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Laura Platchkov <[email protected]>:
> If you are looping, you can throw out an example every once in a while
> to see what is being done, and where you are in the loop.
>
> For example, here is a set of 800 imaginary farms, and a loop that
> finds the two states at the nearest state boundary, where every 150
> obs a graph is drawn to indicate progress is being made, and we start
> with a graph for the first obs so we get some immediate feedback:
>
> clear all
> range pid 1 800 800
> set seed 123
> g farm_Y=32+uniform()*10
> g farm_X=-120+uniform()*40
> compress
> save exfarms
>
> use exfarms, clear
> local nf=_N
> g double mindist=.
> g stateID1=.
> g stateID2=.
> merge using http://pped.org/stata/usa.dta
> local R=6367.44
> qui forv i=1/`nf' {
> local y1=farm_Y[`i']
> local x1=farm_X[`i']
> local y2 _Y
> local x2 _X
> g double L=(`x2'-`x1')*_pi/180
> replace L=(`x2'-`x1'-360)*_pi/180 if L<. & L>_pi
> replace L=(`x2'-`x1'+360)*_pi/180 if L<-_pi
> local t1 acos(sin(`y2'*_pi/180)*sin(`y1'*_pi/180)
> g double d=`t1'+cos(`y2'*_pi/180)*cos(`y1'*_pi/180)*cos(L))*`R'
> su d, meanonly
> replace mindist=r(min) in `i'
> su _ID if d==r(min), meanonly
> loc i1=r(min)
> loc i2=r(max)
> if `i1'==`i2' {
> su d if _ID!=`i1', meanonly
> su _ID if d==r(min) & _ID!=`i1', meanonly
> loc i2=r(min)
> }
> replace stateID1=`i1' in `i'
> replace stateID2=`i2' in `i'
> loc s `"sc _Y _X if inlist(_ID,`i1',`i2'),mc(gs12)"'
> loc s `"`s'||scatteri `y1' `x1',msiz(large) name(ex`i')"'
> if mod(`i',150)==1 `s'
> drop L d
> }
> drop if _m==2
> drop _m _ID _X _Y
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Laura Platchkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi, I am running a huge command wiht more than 1'000'000 operations to do by STATA, and I wa just wondering how I could assure myself that it is really computing some results and I am not waiting for Godot in front of my computer ....?
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