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| From | László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: where is StataCorp C code located? all in a single executable as compiled binary? |
| Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:26:22 -0400 |
Thanks again! I am not sure if those preserve-and-restore the data, but I should check. I think what will happen is that I log the -tab, sum()-, and somehow read in numbers from the log file without opening a new dataset, and plot "immediately" with -scatteri-. Laszlo On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Roger B. Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 > > 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 21:49, 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 >>>> >>>> * >>>> * For searches and help try: >>>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >>>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >>>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >>>> >>> * >>> * For searches and help try: >>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >> >> >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >> > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/