Miscellaneous Stata commands

Production-ready commands:

• doa: "abbreviated do". Instead of typing do 1_import_data you can type doa 1 (as long as it's unambiguous)
• mise_en_place: create the folder structure for a new project
• kosi: shorthand for keep order sort isid (details here)
• hshell: hidden shell, so you can run shell commands on Windows without the annoying popups (requires the parallel package)
• mata_filefilter: alternative to filefilter implemented in Mata. Started as a workaround to an odd bug in filefilter, but might be extended further
• bitfield: niche program; if you have data by i,j (for #j small), you sometimes want to collapse by i and add variables has_j for each level of j. This does so in a memory-efficient way, by compressing the dummies into "bitfields"
• pick_ticks: alternative rule for selecting ticks for a plot axis

Beta commands:

• fast_destring: faster alternative to destring. Works well but only a few options and might change.

Experimental commands:

• block: experiment on how to use the undocumented _request2 option
• parallel_map: (undocumented) distribute tasks on multiple instances of Stata; based on -parallel-

Installation

loc packages doa mise_en_place kosi hshell mata_filefilter bitfield pick_ticks fast_destring parallel_map
loc location "https://github.com/sergiocorreia/stata-misc/raw/master/src"

foreach package of local packages {
	cap ado uninstall `package'
	net install `package', from(`location')
}

Local installation

loc packages doa mise_en_place kosi hshell mata_filefilter bitfield pick_ticks fast_destring parallel_map
loc location "C:\Git\stata-misc\src"

foreach package of local packages {
	cap ado uninstall `package'
	net install `package', from(`location')
}

Extra install do-files

• install_all.do
• The dependencies is useful if you are behind a firewall that blocks https but allows wget (as some network Linux servers do).