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Re: st: Features for Stata 14
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Phil Clayton <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Features for Stata 14
Date
Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:33:26 +1000
You can do those things with the user-written -mmerge- (SSC), but I agree it would be nice if the official -merge- supported those features (and in any case -mmerge- implements them using tempfiles and preserve/restore, so it's not very fast for large datasets).
Phil
On 04/09/2013, at 7:10 AM, László Sándor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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