Re: st: RE: Invoking R from Stata

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

Works for me. Thanks Kit and Mike.

-Dave

On Dec 1, 2008, at 6:45 PM, Michael Hanson wrote:

> While I'm on the topic of platform independence....
>
> I noticed from -help rsource- that the "Rterm_path" global macro of  
> Roger Newson's -rsource- procedure defaults to a value of  
> "Rterm.exe".  In light of Kit Baum's response to David Airey (quoted  
> below), it seems that a more robust solution would be to replace  
> lines 30-32 of rsource.ado:
>
> if `"`rpath'"'=="" {;
>   local rpath "Rterm.exe";
> };
>
> with the following:
>
> if `"`rpath'"'=="" {;
>   if c(os) == "Windows" {;
>     local rpath "Rterm.exe";
>   };
>   else {;
>     local rpath "/usr/bin/r";
>   };
> };
>
> If I understand Kit's message correctly, the latter executable path  
> is valid for any Unix-based installation of R (including R.app on  
> Mac OS X).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike
>
>
> > On Dec 1, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Kit Baum wrote:
> > > He is referring to Roger Newson's -rsource- package on SSC.
> > >
> > > I just tried it under Mac OS X 10.5 and it works fine. In Stata, do
> > >
> > > global Rterm_path "/usr/bin/r"
> > > global Rterm_options `"--vanilla"'
> > >
> > > Then if we have a file test.R containing
> > >
> > > -----
> > > 2+2
> > > q()
> > > -----
> > >
> > > . rsource using test.R
> > > Assumed R program path: "/usr/bin/r"
> > >
> > >
> > > Beginning of R output from source file: test.R
> > >
> > > R version 2.6.2 (2008-02-08)
> > > Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> > > ISBN 3-900051-07-0
> > >
> > > R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > > You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> > > Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
> > >
> > > Natural language support but running in an English locale
> > >
> > > R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> > > Type 'contributors()' for more information and
> > > 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.
> > >
> > > Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
> > > 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
> > > Type 'q()' to quit R.
> > >
> > > > 2+2
> > > [1] 4
> > > > q()
> > >
> > > End of R output from source file: test.R
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > No doubt by changing the Rterm_options you can alter the way in  
> > > which it produces output.  Note that under *nix there is no  
> > > separate executable Rterm; it is just  the binary executable r.  
> > > When you install R on Mac OS X, you get R.app, which is the  
> > > executable that provides the GUI, but under the hood it calls /usr/ 
> > > bin/r.
> > >
> > > 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 Dec 1, 2008, at 5:29 PM, David Airey wrote:
>
> > Has anyone used _rsource_ with the Apple OS X operating system?
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Martin Weiss wrote:
> >
> > > Line for the server...
> > >
> > > That is exactly what -rsource- does, but it also takes care of  
> > > logging...
> > >
> > > HTH
> > > Martin
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Orvalho  
> > > Augusto
> > > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 7:56 PM
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > Subject: Re: st: RE: Invoking R from Stata
> > >
> > > Run from stata:
> > > ! /path/to/R.exe /path/to/rscriptfile
> > >
> > > ! means to invoke a shel command.
> > >
> > > Caveman
> > >
> > > On 12/1/08, Martin Weiss <martin.weiss1@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > Line for the server...
> > > >
> > > > ***********
> > > > ssc d rsource
> > > > ***********
> > > >
> > > > HTH
> > > > Martin
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Ljubica
> > > > Nedelkoska
> > > > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:38 PM
> > > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > > Subject: st: Invoking R from Stata
> > > >
> > > > Dear Statlist members,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to run a file written in R program from a Stata do  
> > > > file. I
> > > > would
> > > > appreciate if somebody helps me how to invoke R from Stata.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Ljubica
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ljubica Nedelkoska
> > > > PhD student
> > > > Research group: "Economics of Innovative Change"
> > > > Friedrich Schiller Universität-Jena
> > > > +49(0)3641 (9) 43 272
>
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