I've recently started playing around with R a bit. I wonder what user-written routines in Stata work with R? Just typing -findit R- yields about 10 million hits, alas.
One routine I've discovered is Roger Newson's rsource. It is quite handy because you can run an R script and all the output appears in Stata.
A potential use: R can read and write a bunch of different data formats. For example, it could read in an SPSS file and create a stata file, and vice versa. People are always asking about things like this, so it would be handy if, say, there was a Stata Rimport or Rexport routine. Since R is free, it would be like a poor person's stat/transfer program. I might be tempted to write such a routine, but I don't want to bother if it already exists.
Personally, I am not that crazy about R! But it does have some features that are not in Stata. Anything that made it easy to use those features (especially for people like me who only know a little R) would be nice.
One routine I've discovered is Roger Newson's rsource. It is quite handy because you can run an R script and all the output appears in Stata.
A potential use: R can read and write a bunch of different data formats. For example, it could read in an SPSS file and create a stata file, and vice versa. People are always asking about things like this, so it would be handy if, say, there was a Stata Rimport or Rexport routine. Since R is free, it would be like a poor person's stat/transfer program. I might be tempted to write such a routine, but I don't want to bother if it already exists.
Personally, I am not that crazy about R! But it does have some features that are not in Stata. Anything that made it easy to use those features (especially for people like me who only know a little R) would be nice.
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