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| From | "Airey, David C" <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | re: st: markdown |
| Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:09:06 -0500 |
. Very nice! -Dave >> Dear Stata List, >> >> I have also enjoyed the knitr package for R and needed to write a quick >> tutorial on how to use Stata. I wrote a bare bones program to evaluate and >> embed the results of Stata code into a markdown file. Here are the results: >> >> >> https://github.com/amarder/stata_tutorial/blob/master/tutorial.md >> >> >> Here is the function I used to create the above markdown file: >> >> >> https://github.com/amarder/stata_tutorial/blob/master/knitr.do >> >> >> And here is the input to that function: >> >> >> https://github.com/amarder/stata_tutorial/blob/master/tutorial.domd >> >> >> This is feature poor compared to R's knitr, but I think it demonstrates how >> useful this approach can be. >> >> All the best, Andrew > > > From: "Airey, David C" <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu> > Subject: st: markdown > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:34:25 -0500 > > I was just playing around with Rstudio (I use Stata and R) and its new > markdown capability (dependent on knitr and other packages). The point > I wanted to make is that it is now *easy* to produce very nice HTML > reports, without knowing LaTeX. This is one feature that Stata seems > relatively behind with--dynamic reporting. > > Over the years we have seen various solutions, some quite intricate, > and we know the -file- command can create any markup output, but that > is not easy as one click "knitting" in RStudio. I have used the very > nice texdoc command in Stata. It has been brought up before that Stata > Corp might make it easier to use light markup languages for report > generation (markdown, reST). > > > > http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=pr0020 > http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s457021.html > http://www.rstudio.org/docs/authoring/using_markdown > http://www.rpubs.com/ * * 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/