re:st: Returning stata users wish list

[Christopher Baum <kit.baum@bc.edu>]

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Glad to hear that you have returned from the Dark Side.


Re: -	write data row directly to existing data file.(appendto filename
<varlist> <valuelist>

Note that Mata's fopen() function can open a file for append; it would tbe quite straightforward to write a Stata command that would take one observation and append it to an existing file. I'm not sure what you mean by 'valuelist', though: don't variables in memory already have values? 



Re: Surface plot / heat map, or even better, full 3d grid plots.

One of my grumbles at every SUG meeting. But just today, I posted Austin Nichols' hmap (heatmap) on the SSC Archive. 
A step in the right direction, but I still want heatmap-style contour plots.



Re:	ability to set default values for programs/do/ado file parameters.

help syntax. You can do this now.



Re: Stata grade documentation on how to build custom egen functions.

To quote from [U] 18, Programming Stata, 

"If you want even more, we offer courses over the Internet on Stata programming; see [U] 3.7.1 NetCourses.
Baum (2009) provides a wealth of practical knowledge related to Stata programming."





Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
                              An Introduction to Stata Programming  |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
   An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata  |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html




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