simple commands

[John Maloney]

I can't find a list of the simplest commands. I eventually found out how to generate the reciprocal of a number, and am now having no luck discovering how to subtract a constant from each observation of a variable. Google searches lead to all the complicated stuff but not the basics.

[George Ford]

https://people.ucsc.edu/~aspearot/Econ113W13%20/basic_tutorial_stata.pdf

generate (which can be written as g or gen) will do that sort of thing.

g invx = 1/x
g invc = x - 2

[John Maloney]

thank you very much, and do you know of a general list for this kind of thing?

[John Maloney]

I'm sorry, I see you gave it to me! many thanks

[Nick Cox]

My hint is that in your examples you are looking for operators so

help operators