Re: st: Features for Stata 14

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

More on the renaming-without-opening issue: maybe it is even more
prudent if the merge allows us to specify how the identifiers are
called in the master and the using data separately.

That would even let us do some neat things like merging in parental
info to the kids' records easily. (i.e. where the id is the "parentID"
variable in master but "ownID" variable in using). For such cases it
could even be useful if Stata allowed the quick renaming of variables
merged in, e.g. adding a parent_ prefix to the stubs.

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
> I have four PCs running Stata, and this has been true for versions
> 10,11,12,13 at least on all of them.
>
> To be clear, if I select from the results window and right click/copy, it
> works to paste that without any problem. The issue is that if I select,
> copy, then (say) open a Word document and maybe use the clipboard, then go
> back to Stata, the selection can no longer be copied to the clipboard,
> regardless of whether I right click, select Edit/Copy or use the hot button
> my mouse. I have to kill the selection, reselect, then copy.
>
> I do a lot of sharing of results via Word and Excel files, so I hit this
> several times a day.
>
> J
>
>
>
> On 9/3/2013 2:26 PM, James Fiedler wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, that's strange. Right click and copy works for me. I tried it
>> just now with both Stata 12.1 and Stata 13, on Windows 7. This might
>> be a problem with your installation.
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> James,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the suggestions but a) it's not a focus issue - even
>>> right-click/copy will not work
>>> - and b) I have workarounds, what I want is the expected behaviour to
>>> obtain.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Jeph
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/3/2013 1:27 PM, James Fiedler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jeph,
>>>>
>>>> I think the problem in #1 is all about where the focus goes when you
>>>> return to Stata, and by default, the Command window gets the focus. If
>>>> you re-focus on Stata by clicking on the Stata title bar, then try to
>>>> copy with Ctrl-C, the Ctrl-C is interpreted as an attempt to copy from
>>>> the Command window.
>>>>
>>>> I'm assuming you're trying to copy from the Results window. Here are a
>>>> couple workarounds:
>>>> a) You can right click on the selection, and choose copy.
>>>> b) When you come back to Stata, click on the scroll bar next to the
>>>> Results window. This will put focus on the Results window without
>>>> removing the selection, and Ctrl-C will copy from there.
>>>> c) You can use Ctrl-Tab to move the focus within Stata.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe there is a simple solution that could be put into the software,
>>>> but I would bet not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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