Re: st: Features for Stata 14

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

These are interface nusiances I encounter almost everyday:

1. The Copy functionality on the results window is not very robust,
   at least in Windows. I find that if I make a selection and then
   go do something else, I can't come back to the window and successfully
   copy that selection to the clipboard. I have to reselect it, then
   copy it. This has been true for as many versions as I can recall.

2. The many inbuilt functions of Stata do not use the same column tabs for
   output. For instance,

     tab x y
     tab z y

   may give two tables that have different alignments, so that if I want to
   copy/paste/convert to table, I have to do each separately. And ideally
   there would be some default or option for regression output, tabulations,
   etc that would produce a common set of tabs.

Jeph



On 9/2/2013 11:00 AM, William Buchanan wrote:
> Since it is still fairly early in the development cycle for the next release of Stata, I thought it might be good to start a thread about things that people would like to see added to the next release.
>
> I would definitely be interested in seeing some updates/expansions to the graphics capabilities of Stata.  Alpha level blending is something that has come up several times and adding interactive graphics would be a great addition to the existing commands (e.g., functionality that is common in Tableau and several packages in R).
>
> Documentation of the lower level graphics commands to make it easier for users to extend the graphics capabilities.
>
> Latent Class Analysis and Latent Transition Analysis with support for all types of manifest variables.
>
> Multivariate mixed-effects models
>
> Exploratory Factor Analysis with nominal/ordinal/non-normal variables
>
> Improved debugging tools (e.g., stepwise evaluator for programs, more informative error messages, etc...)
>
> New ways to generate samples of data with specified correlation structures/distributions
>
> I'm curious to see what other people have to say on this topic as well.
>
> Billy
>
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