Re: st: where is StataCorp C code located? all in a single executable as compiled binary?

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Roger.

I never meant that StataCorp should give away their source. I was only
hoping to squeeze out some more interoperability. And so much of the
rest of the code is in smaller chunks. Not -tabulate-, I see.

I should have thought of -which-.

I only wanted to capture some of the results/output without logging
and parsing the log.

Thanks,

Laszlo

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Roger B. Newson
<r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> I think you'll find that everything really is in the executable
> "/Applications/Stata/StataMP.app/Contents/MacOS/StataMP". This is because
> Stata is not open-source, and was never supposed to be. StataCorp have to
> make a living, and would probably not be able to do so if it was open-source
> and users could make generic copies.
>
> A lot of the code for a lot of official Stata is open-source (ie in
> ado-files), but -tabulate- isn't. If you type, in Stata,
>
> which tabulate
>
> then Stata will answer
>
> built-in command:  tabulate
>
> meaning that there is no file -tabulate.ado-.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
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> On 18/08/2013 21:21, László Sándor wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to understand how -tabulate, summarize- works. I
>> understand that much of it is written in C code, but I would still
>> expect to find some black boxes of files that do the magic. I think I
>> checked all folders, incl. hidden folders within /Applications/Stata
>> on my mac, and even checked the package contents of
>> /Applications/Stata/StataMP. I found no trace of -tabulate-, or any
>> other plugin/DLL whatsoever. Is everything wrapped into the Unix
>> executable "/Applications/Stata/StataMP.app/Contents/MacOS/StataMP"?
>> Really?
>>
>> As I only need the results of -tab, sum()-, I hope to see some code
>> calling -_tab.ado- or some other code to display the results. Is
>> everything in the compiled binary instead?
>>
>> Well, something must add up those 33.9 MBs…
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts,
>>
>> Laszlo
>>
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