This is very impressive. Are there any plans to distribute a conversion package from .sthlp to .html on SSC? (Or even in official Stata, in case any StataCorp people are listening?)
Best wishes
Roger
Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
Imperial College London
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kit Baum
Sent: 29 March 2009 13:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: SSC Archive help files now available in HTML
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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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