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

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

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
>
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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
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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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