A Bit of Glue Between R and Stata

Description

A simple R -> Stata interface allowing the user to execute Stata commands (both inline and from a .do file) from R.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Luca Braglia lbraglia@gmail.com

See Also

Useful links:

• https://github.com/lbraglia/RStata

• Report bugs at https://github.com/lbraglia/RStata/issues

Set Stata binary path

Description

Set Stata binary (among found alternatives) path. These settings are lost when R is closed, therefore you should consider adding a options("RStata.StataPath") line in your .Rprofile.

Usage

chooseStataBin()

Send commands to a Stata process

Description

Function that sends commands to a Stata process.

Usage

stata(
  src = stop("At least 'src' must be specified"),
  data.in = NULL,
  data.out = FALSE,
  stata.path = getOption("RStata.StataPath",
    stop("You need to set up a Stata path; ?chooseStataBin")),
  stata.version = getOption("RStata.StataVersion",
    stop("You need to specify your Stata version")),
  stata.echo = getOption("RStata.StataEcho", TRUE),
  ...
)

Arguments

Examples

## Not run: 
## Single command
stata("help regress") #<- this won't work in Windows dued to needed
                      #   batch mode

## Many commands
stata_src <- '

version 10
set more off
sysuse auto
reg mpg weight

'
stata(stata_src)

## External .do file
stata("foo.do")

## Data input to Stata
x <- data.frame(a = rnorm(3), b = letters[1:3])
stata( "sum a", data.in = x)

## Data output from Stata (eg obtain 'auto' dataset)
auto <- stata("sysuse auto", data.out = TRUE)
head(auto)

## Data input/output
(y <- stata("replace a = 2", data.in = x, data.out = TRUE))

## End(Not run)