Re: st: Identifying the do-file source code of tables and graphs

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

My method for self-documentation:

1. Break up analyses into a series of do files.
2. In each, set a  local macro with the program file name: e.g. local  
pname  "p03_an.do"
(In a NetCourse, Bill Gould suggested that  different programs   
create   (e.g. name p02_cr) and analyze (e.g. p03_an.do)
3. Set a  local macro with the name of the data set(s) analyzed:   
local dfiles "d03.dta"
4. Create a local macro  docit with text "Program: `pname'.  Data:  
`dfiles'."
5. Display `docit' periodically.
6. Add  `docit' as text to graph notes.
7. Add the graph number (eg. g03_01 (program p03, graph 1) to graph  
notes

I always add the program and data set names to rtf tables, and remove  
them only in the submitted versions.

-Steve

On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:


> Hello Michael,
>
> Look for an older thread "Does a do file know it's name?", e.g. here:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-08/msg00584.html
>
> As far as I know - you have to define the filename either in that file
> (e.g. as a local) or in the calling program, which probably calls each
> of your individual do files (e.g. as a global).
>
> If you use xml_tab for output, it is convenient to have sheets named
> as do-files, and you then have a single Excel file with all your
> tables. You can append tables from multiple .do files to a single
> output file, so you can form your report step-by-step.
>
> Hope this helps,
>    Sergiy Radyakin
>
> On 8/31/08, Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm preparing a long paper which includes tables and graphs  
> > generated by
> > code from an (also very long) do-file. Is there a simple way to  
> > append to
> > those tables and graphs the originating do-file's file name and  
> > the file
> > number where that code would be found?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Michael McCulloch
> >
> >
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