Re: st: Is it possible to write a procedure in Stata that interacts with the user?

[Michael Norman Mitchell <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Will this previous posting help?

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-02/msg00171.html


Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-04-13 11.32 AM, Hoogendoorn, Adriaan wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> Is it possible to write a procedure that interacts with the user?
> To give an example of what I mean, suppose that I could create such an
> interacting procedure "my_summarize" (in a do file) ending with:
>
> sysuse auto
> my_summarize mpg
>
> Now  I would like Stata to interact with the user, and want Stata to
> come up with the following suggestion:
> Type 1 if you want mean and standard deviation or
> Type 2 if you want median an interquartile range.
> Please type either 1 or 2.
> .
> Typing 1 or 2 from would now result in either the mean and sd of mpg or
> its median and iqr.
>
> Is such an approach (or some alternative) possible in Stata?
>
> Kind regards,
> Adriaan Hoogendoorn
> GGZ inGeest
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