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Stas said
Looking up Stata official help files via
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?regress comes extremely handy at times,
especially when I need to explain functionality of some commands to
non-Stata users, or when I am on somebody else's computer, or when I
do something in a remote terminal. Any way to twist the arms of that
help.cgi script to open help files outside StataCorp website? Of
course I can -view- them just fine from inside Stata, but I want to
find a relatively easy way to access the external help files using
just a standard browser.
Following up this wishlist item, the help-file contents of the SSC
Archive (help ssc) are now available in HTML format.
To read the help for -abar- in a browser, go to
http://repec.org/bocode/a/abar.html
For -egenmore-,
http://repec.org/bocode/e/egenmore.html
For -ivreg2-,
http://repec.org/bocode/i/ivreg2.html
and so on. These are not produced on the fly, as StataCorp's cgi
script does, but are static help files. They will be kept reasonably
up to date.
Kit
PS> Producing 1,792 help files in HTML format took about 9 lines of
ado code and 12 lines of Mata code. Probably could be optimized.
PPS> "y" aren't there any user-written Stata programs starting with
"y"? Curious minds want to know...
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
http://repec.org
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