Some coworkers who have been struggling with Stata 11 are asking for my help to try to automate their laborious work. They mainly use 3 commands in Stata: tsset (sets a time series analysis) a...

I have data pulled from a database and stored in Stata .dta files. But when I read it into R using the foreign package, I get a date format unlike any I've seen. All of the other dates are "%m/%d/%...

I apologize in advance if this has a simple answer somewhere. It seems like the kind of thing that would, but I can't seem to locate it in the help files, by searching SO, or by Googling. I'm work...

This is a basic problem in data analysis which Stata deals with in one step. Create a wide data frame with time invariant data (x0) and time varying data for years 2000 and 2005 (x1,x2): d1 <-...

I'm working on monitoring CPU and memory usage of Stata/MP (the multicore version of Stata/SE) but I am not a Stata programmer (more of a Perl guy). Can anyone post some code that utilizes a publi...

One of the things Stata does well is the way it constructs new variables (see example below). How to do this in R? foreach i in A B C D { forval n=1990/2000 { local m = 'n'-1 # create new co...

I want to run a two stage probit least square regression in R. Does anyone know how to do this? Is there any package out there? I know it's possible to do it using Stata, so I imagine it's possible...

Have been using Stata to run negative binomial regressions in a replication. Not sure what is under the hood on how Stata does this, but wanted to know if there is an R function/package that does t...

When programming in Stata I often find myself using the loop index in the programming. For example, I'll loop over a list of the variables nominalprice and realprice: local list = "nominalprice r...