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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: manipulate built-in stata commands |
| Date | Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:39:32 +0000 |
If a built-in command is defined by code not accessible to you, and that is what "built-in" means, then absolutely not. -generate- is a case in point. If a built-in, meaning strictly "official", command is defined by an .ado, you could enter that code and change it, but that would be _a very bad idea_. Your question implies that you are doing this. If so, any such habit may well bite you badly sooner or later. And in any case you would lose all such changes when you upgrade and might lose them when you -update-. At most, clone official commands and then change the way a cloned version under a different name works. Lots of user programming is something like this. If you let us know why you want to do this, you would get better and more specific advice. Nick On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:17 AM, <mailjp@gmx.net> wrote: > i'am trying to manipulate some commands the way they are more usefull to my purposes. Now after a view manipulations i'am stuck...i wanted to change the generate.ado when i noticed there isn't one. it's because it is a built-in command. so is there any chance to manipulate built-in commands the way it is with "normal" .ado-files? Raoul Duke * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/