st: New versions of -dolog-, -dologx- and -dotex- on SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks as always to Kit Baum, new versions of the -dolog-, -dologx- and 
-dotex- packages are now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use 
the -ssc- command to do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have old 
versions of these packages.

The -dolog-, -dologx- and -dotex- packages are described as below on my 
website, and act as versions of the -do- command that automatically 
generate a log file. The new versions have been updated to Stata Version 13.

Users of earlier Stata versions can still download old versions of these 
packages from my website, where -dolog- is available in Stata Versions 6 
to 13, -dologx- is available in Stata Versions 8 to 13, and -dotex- is 
available in Stata Versions 7 and 10 to 13. To download these, type, in 
Stata,

net from "http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/";

and select the Stata version you want, and then download -dolog-, 
-dologx- and/or -dotex-.

Best wishes

Roger

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Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
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package dolog from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata13
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TITLE
      dolog: Execute commands from a file, creating a log file

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      dolog (like do) causes Stata to execute the commands stored in 
filename
      just as if they were entered from the keyboard, and echos the 
commands as it
      executes them, creating a log file filename.log.  If filename is 
specified
      without an extension, filename.do is assumed. If filename is 
specified with
      an extension, then the log file will have .log as an additional 
extension
      (so dolog will not overwrite the original do-file). Arguments are 
allowed
      (as with do), but the nostop option is not available.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 06september2013
      Stata-Version: 13

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      dolog.ado
      dolog.sthlp
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package dologx from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata13
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TITLE
      dologx: Multiple versions of dolog for executing certification 
scripts

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      dologx (like dolog) causes Stata to execute the commands stored 
in a do-file
      named filename.do as if they were entered from the keyboard, and 
echos the
      commands as it executes them, creating a log file filename.log. 
The dologx
      package contains multiple versions of dolog, written in multiple 
Stata
      versions, intended for use when running certification scripts. 
Usually, a
      do-file should contain a version statement at or near the top, so 
it will
      still run in the Stata version in which it was written, even if 
the user runs
      it under a later version of Stata. Certification scripts are an 
exception to
      this rule, because they are run under multiple Stata versions, to 
certify
      that the package being tested works under all of these versions. A
      certification script therefore should not contain a version 
statement at the
      top. The version of Stata under which it run will therefore be 
the version in
      force in the program that calls it, even if that program is 
dolog. The
      standard version of dolog should therefore not be used to run a 
certification
      script, and the user should use the dologx package instead, using 
dolog6 to
      run it under Stata 6, dolog7 to run it under Stata 7, and so on.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 06september2013
      Stata-Version: 13

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      dolog6.ado
      dolog7.ado
      dolog8.ado
      dolog9.ado
      dolog10.ado
      dolog11.ado
      dolog12.ado
      dolog13.ado
      dologx.sthlp
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package dotex from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata13
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TITLE
      dotex: Execute a do-file generating a SJ LaTeX log

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      dotex is a version of the dolog package, and causes Stata to 
execute the
      commands stored in a do-file named filename.do as if they were 
entered from
      the keyboard, and echos the commands as it executes them, 
creating a log file
      filename.tex written in Stata Journal (SJ) LaTeX. The file 
filename.tex (or
      parts of it) can then be included in the stlog environment of SJ 
LaTeX. The
      dotex package was derived by hybridising the dolog package with 
the SJ's
      logopen and logclose, which also create log files written in SJ 
LaTeX for
      inclusion in the stlog environment. The dotex package has the 
advantage that
      a user can run the same do-file using dotex, dolog and do, 
creating a SJ
      LaTeX log file, a text log file, and no log file, respectively.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 06september2013
      Stata-Version: 13

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      dotex.ado
      dotex.sthlp
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