st: Re: R and Stata efficiency

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Phil is quite correct, but the current version of Stata (10.0)  
contains an -estimates save- command that allows you to retain and  
recall estimated results in this or later sessions of Stata.

http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?estimates_save

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Jul 11, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Phil wrote:


> For example, a common
> idiom in R is to fit a model like this:
>
> results <- lm(y ~ x)
>
> This command places the results into an object called
> "results" (technically of class "lm"), which one can then use later
> on.  In Stata, this would look like:
>
> reg y x
> est store results
>
> which would store the estimation results under the name "results" for
> further use.  Of course in R you can save the object "results" in a
> file, whereas in Stata (at least as of version 9) you cannot save the
> set of results in a file (though see Michael Blasnik's -estsave- and
> Ben Jann's -estwrite- and -estread- wrappers for a workaround).
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