Re: st: Re: Calling SAS and R code from Stata

["Austin Nichols" <austinnichols@gmail.com>]

Babak Oskooei --
Easy enough to run another program with the -shell- command and then
you need to read in that other program's output with the -infile- or
-file- command,
in all likelihood.

On 5/2/06, Babak Oskooei <babak_cho@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I have a question regarding STATA software.
> I would appreciate any comments on the following
> problem:
>
> I perform research on several measures of explained
> variation in survival analysis which were programmed
> in different software such as SAS, R and C. I am
> planning to conduct simulation studies on all these
> measures in STATA software. Considering the deadline I
> have, it is practically impossible for me to program
> all measures again in STATA. I was wondering whether
> these programs could be run from within STATA. I know
> that STATA allows you to call in C codes using Plugin
> facility that exist in STATA, but I do not know
> whether this is possible with SAS or R code. Is it
> possible to use SAS or R as slave programs?
>
> I would be grateful for any comments on this or any
> references that I can refer to.
>
> Best regards
>
> Babak Oskooei
> PhD Student
> UCL Statistical Sciences Dep.
>
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Babak Oskooei <babak_cho@yahoo.com>
> To: allstat@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 06:46:11 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: Calling SAS and R code from Stata
> Dear AllStat,
>
> I have a question regarding STATA, SAS and R software.
> I would appreciate any comments on the following
> problem:
>
> I perform research on several measures of explained
> variation in survival analysis which were programmed
> in different software such as SAS, R and C. I am
> planning to conduct simulation studies on all these
> measures in STATA software. Considering the deadline I
> have, it is practically impossible for me to program
> all measures again in STATA. I was wondering whether
> these programs could be run from within STATA. I know
> that STATA allows you to call in C codes using Plugin
> facility that exist in STATA, but I do not know
> whether this is possible with SAS or R code. Is it
> possible to use SAS or R as slave programs?
>
> I would be grateful for any comments on this or any
> references that I can refer to.
>
> Best regards
>
> Babak Oskooei
> PhD Student
> UCL Statistical Sciences Dep.
>
>
> __________________________________________________
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