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| From | Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: Java plugins. Experiences, pros and cons, when to use them? |
| Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:05:58 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Christophe Kolodziejczyk wrote:
Dear Statalister I would like to have some feedback from anyone on the list who could share his or her experience with Java plugins. It is a new feature of Stata 13 and I haven't tried it yet. But I was wondering in which cases they might be useful and whether there is an advantage in terms of execution time compared to mata. I don't really see why Stata Corp has actually introduced them, but I would be happy to learn more about them :-). Best regards Christophe
I never tried The old C plugins because of the restriction noted on the Stata website:
Note that a plugin cannot create a new Stata variable but will happily fill in one that you have created in Stata and set it to either missing, zero, or whatever. It appears that Java plugins can create a new variable, which would be a substantial benefit. Daniel Feenberg
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