st: Re: elementary Stata programming

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

I would also call attention to a downloadable paper on that subject,  
presented at last year's UKSUG, that has been mentioned by several on  
this list:

"A little bit of Stata programming goes a long way..."
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/usug05/16.html

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Jun 13, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Nick wrote:


> The documentation for -foreach- is in [P], which
> many users do not access to. The on-line help is
> a little terse, and rather presupposes some knowledge
> of (Stata) programming.
>
> However, a basic tutorial on these commands
> was published in the Stata Journal:
>
> SJ-2-2  pr0005  . . . . . .  Speaking Stata:  How to face lists  
> with fortitude
>         Q2/02   SJ 2(2):202--222                                  
> (no commands)
>         demonstrates the usefulness of for, foreach, forvalues, and
>         local macros for interactive (non programming) tasks
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