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Re: st: file names in esttab, style(tex)
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: file names in esttab, style(tex)
Date
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:50:02 +0000
I think that's right, but the user should know the name of the do-file
and the question is then whether there is a handle to pass it to
-esttab-.
It is also I think pertinent that sometime ago I wrote a small utility
-filei- (SSC) that permits adding lines to existing text files, so
there is more scope for automation than may appear. That is, -esttab-
and -filei- could be called from the same script.
Nick
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Christopher Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
> I wonder if there is a way to print the do-file file name (and
> possibly the date) as a comment on a tex file outputted by esttab
> (available from ssc). That is, it would be wonderful if the generated
> tex file started with a (tex) comment, such as
>
> % file generated by mydifile.do in DD/MM/YYYY
>
> For example, the equivalent function in R does exactly this. If any
> one has any idea on how to pass this to esttab, I'd be thankful if you
> could share it. If not, here's a suggestion for future versions of
> esttab.
>
>
> I don't believe this is really an esttab (Jann, SSC) issue. To my knowledge a do-file does not know its own name, in the sense that nowhere
> among the creturns is the name of the file that appeared in the last do... command (or equivalent, e.g., click on 'run' in the GUI). You can determine
> the current working directory, and the name of the current datafile loaded into memory (if it exists), but I don't believe that you can recover the
> name of the do-file from within that file.
>
> I could be wrong, of course, and I'm sure Stata developers will clarify if I am.
>
> Kit
>
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