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From | Austin Nichols <austinnichols@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: RE: I wish I'd known that - |
Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:16:14 -0400 |
David Elliott <dcelliott@gmail.com>: Thanks for pointing out [ http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?contents_should_know ] --I hadn't seen it before. But I honestly can't believe that -do-, -findit-, -local-, -by-, -levelsof-, -foreach-, -svy-, -mi-, -graph- and -twoway- are not on that list. It also should link to http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?comments and http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?functions and http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?estcom and http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?subscripting and http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?tsvarlist at minimum. I.e. since it has some data manipulation commands on there, it should also tell you how to put them in a do file with some comments. My own intranet Stata page says, among other things: The User's Guide is a good place to start, and is now available in PDF format, linked from the help files; for example, if you type help estcom in Stata, one of the top lines in the help file is a link to [U] 20 Estimation and postestimation commands (an article in the User's Guide). Also required reading for all Stata users: * Article on by [ http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0004 ] * Article on foreach [ http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0005 ] If you want to see what's going on inside a foreach loop, you can set trace on and set tracedepth 1. If you're looking for a graphics command, a good place to start is the catalog of graphs on the Stata website [ http://stata.com/support/faqs/graphics/gph/statagraphs.html ], with commands needed to reproduce each graph shown directly below the graph output. [etc.] On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:01 PM, David Elliott <dcelliott@gmail.com> wrote: > A great place to start is with Stata's own suggestion list: -help > contents_should_know- > > I created (well, more like got halfway done but never finished) a > Stata helpfile for our networked Stata that has a link that is created > by a reference in profile.do and printed to the console on startup > displaying: "An introduction to Stata is available. Just -click here- > to view it." > This is especially useful for new users and I would encourage you to > consider writing your course, or at least labs, in SMCL so that users > can run code examples, access command help and supplementary info all > from within the Stata interface. > > DC Elliott * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/