find_stata {Statamarkdown}

R Documentation

A helper function that seeks to locate your Stata executable. Ordinarily this is run automatically when Statamarkdown is loaded.

Description

This function searches for recent versions of Stata (>= Stata 11), in some of the usual default installation locations.

If Stata is not found, you will have to specify it's correct location yourself.

Usage

find_stata(message=TRUE)

Arguments

message

(logical) Whether or not to print a message when Stata is found.

Value

A character string with the path and name of the Stata executable.

Author(s)

Doug Hemken

See Also

Statamarkdown-package

Examples

## Not run: 
indoc <- '
# An R console example
## In a first code chunk, set up with
```{r}
library(Statamarkdown)
stataexe <- find_stata()
knitr::opts_chunk$set(engine.path=list(stata=stataexe),
  error=TRUE, cleanlog=TRUE, comment=NA)
```
## Then mark Stata code chunks with
```{stata}
sysuse auto, clear
generate gpm = 1/mpg
summarize price gpm
```
'

# To run this example, remove tempdir().
fmd <- file.path(tempdir(), "test.md")
fhtml <- file.path(tempdir(), "test.html")

knitr::knit(text=indoc, output=fmd)
markdown::markdownToHTML(fmd, fhtml)

## End(Not run)

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