list the first few rows in Stata

Question

I have used R quite a bit and I know I can use head(data[,"column"]) or head(data) to see the first few rows/cells of data.

How can I do that in Stata?

Foggia

Answer 1

You can use the list command for this:

list column in 1/6

or

list in 1/6

If you have a look at help list, you will discover plenty of options to customize the display.

Corselet

One of the reasons people ask questions on SO is because the included documentation is not clear. So in this case help list might seem like a great idea, but the result is fairly incomprehensible. The documentation is SATA is not stellar. – Vercelli