st: New version of -stcmd- on SSC

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

Thanks once again to Kit Baum, a new version of the -stcmd- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to 
do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -stcmd-.

The -stcmd- command is described as below on my website, and is used to 
run the Stat/Transfer package from inside Stata, if the user has 
Stat/Transfer installed. The new version is still written in Stata 
Version 10, but adds a new module -outputstold-. The -outputstold- 
module is an alternative version of the -outputst- module, for use by 
users whose Stat/Transfer version is less up to date than the user's 
Stata version. There appears to be a tradition that Version K of 
Stat/Transfer is shipped on the same day as Version K+1 of Stata, and 
adds the ability to read Stata Version K+1 datasets. This may cause 
problems for the -outputst- module if the user has updated Stata without 
also updating Stat/Transfer, because -outputst- writes a temporary Stata 
dataset in the latest Stata version using -save-, and this temporary 
dataset is then input to Stat/Transfer, and, if the user's version of 
Stat/Transfer cannot read Stata datasets written by the user's version 
of Stata, then Stat/Transfer will fail, and so will -outputst-. The 
-outputstold- module writes the temporary Stata dataset in the previous 
Stata version using -saveold-, making it recognizable as a Stata dataset 
for the user's outdated version of Stat/Transfer.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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package stcmd from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
      stcmd: Run the Stat/Transfer st command from inside Stata

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The program stcmd runs the Stat/Transfer st command from inside 
Stata, if
      Stat/Transfer is installed on the user's system. Stat/Transfer 
converts
      data sets from one format to another (eg Stata to/from R). It is
      available from Stata Corporation and manufactured by Circle 
Systems, and
      further information can be found at http://www.stattransfer.com/. The
      program inputst converts an existing non-Stata input file into a 
Stata
      dataset in the memory, overwriting any existing data. The program 
outputst
      converts the Stata dataset in the memory to a newly-created non-Stata
      output file. The programs inputst and outputst require stcmd, and 
therefore
      should not be downloaded alone. If the Stat/Transfer directory on the
      user's system is not on the user's default path, then the user 
must set
      the global macro StatTransfer_path to contain the path for the 
Stat/Transfer
      st command, possibly in the profile.do file (see on-line help for 
details).

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 11august2011
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      stcmd.ado
      inputst.ado
      outputst.ado
      outputstold.ado
      stcmd.sthlp
      inputst.sthlp
      outputst.sthlp
      outputstold.sthlp
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