Re: st: RE: using data off the web

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

Thanks Nick and Rodrigo. I did not know about the copy command.

Testing the suggestion works:

copy "http://www.genenetwork.org/cgi-bin/WebQTL.py?cmd=cor&probeset=rs13481111&db=BXDGeno&searchdb=bra12-03MAS5&return=500 
" simple.txt, text

insheet using simple.txt


I had to use the quotes otherwise I got an error message:

varlist not allowed
r(101);


Thank you!

On Apr 14, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Nick Cox wrote:

> In the interim: -copy- followed by -insheet- is what I would  
> recommend,
> as -copy- can use internet addresses.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> David Airey
>
> I know that "use" allows using Stata .dta files from the web, but if a
> site has "insheet"-like data (and nothing else), it would be nice if I
> could insheet from the http site, like you can "use" from an http  
> site.
>
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