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

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

One way of doing what you want is probably to use the -xcontract- and 
-xcollapse- packages, which you can download from SSC. These are 
extended versions of -collapse- and -contract-, which can save the 
output datasets (or resultssets) to Stata .dta files on disk, with which 
the user can do all kinds of plotting and tabulating.
Best wishes

Roger

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On 18/08/2013 21:49, László Sándor wrote:
> 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
> >
> > Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
> > Lecturer in Medical Statistics
> > Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
> > National Heart and Lung Institute
> > Imperial College London
> > Royal Brompton Campus
> > Room 33, Emmanuel Kaye Building
> > 1B Manresa Road
> > London SW3 6LR
> > UNITED KINGDOM
> > Tel: +44 (0)20 7352 8121 ext 3381
> > Fax: +44 (0)20 7351 8322
> > Email: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk
> > Web page: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/
> > Departmental Web page:
> > http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/divisions/nhli/respiration/popgenetics/reph/
> >
> > Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.
> >
> >
> > 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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