Re: st: texdoc

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

A possible tool for doing reproducible research, if your colleagues 
prefer Microsoft-readable output, is the -rtfutil- package, downloadable 
from SSC (if you have Stata Version 11) and from my website (if you have 
Stata Version 10). The -rtfutil- package is intended for use with the 
-listtab- package, also downloadable from SSC (if you have Stata Version 
11) and from my website (if you have Stata Version 10).

The -listtab- and -rtfutil- packages are both part of a suite of 
programs for producing output datasets (or resultssets), which are Stata 
datasets with one observation per "result". These "results" are 
typically (but not always) confidence intervals. Resultssets are useful 
if you want to plot results (as for a presentation) as well as 
tabulating them (for a submitted journal article). More about 
resultssets can be found in Newson (2004). Note that the -listtab- 
package is intended to replace the older -listtex- package.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


References

Newson R. From datasets to resultssets in Stata. Presented at the 10th 
UK Stata User Meeting, 28-29 June, 2004. Download from
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/usug04/16.html


Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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On 17/05/2010 19:42, Austin Nichols wrote:
> Nick, Michael Norman Mitchell:
> In principle, it should be straightforward to do this kind of thing in
> RTF; see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format or try:
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> qui reg mpg weight
> tempfile t
> esttab using `t', rtf
> type `t'
>
> for an example of what the output would look like.
>
> One issue is, when Microsoft changes the RTF standard or the way Word
> reads RTF files, they might break whatever you wrote, without warning
> or apology, so a programmer would have to stay on top of those kinds
> of changes.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Nick Cox<n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>  wrote:
> > My short answer is No.
> >
> > My longer answer is that it's difficult to imagine how that would be
> > done -- and (not least) who would do it. Does Word lend itself to this,
> > even in principle?
> >
> > One near approach would seem to be those programs with varying degrees
> > of support for HTML output. -findit html- finds several.
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > Michael Norman Mitchell
> >
> >
> >    Thanks for posting this to bring this to our (and my) attention. I
> > always believe very strongly in using this kind of "weaving" approach
> > and find it very efficient. Are you (or is anyone on the Statalist)
> > aware of a tool similar to this that weaves comments, commands, output,
> > and graphs into a Word document? At my work, we are in constant need of
> > creating such integrated outputs and the standard format is a Word
> > document.
> >
> >
> > On 2010-05-16 9.14 PM, Airey, David C wrote:
> > > .
> > >
> > > I just wanted to remind users about Ben Jann's program "texdoc" as one
> > solution for combining Stata results and graphs with documentation, in a
> > "weaving" fashion, similar to R and Sweave. It works well with
> > relatively simple documents one might produce for a course.
>
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