Clear Results (in Results Window, not memory)

[Guest]

Hi

Is there a way to use the command line (and thus a command in a do-file) to ask for the Results window to be fresh and clean?

That is, doing the same as Edit > Clear Results, or right-clicking, Clear Results, but with a command. I've searched and returned home empty-handed.

Guest

[Nick Cox]

 
help cls

[Guest]

!

Thanks.

[Nick Cox]

1. I knew there was a dedicated command, so that's not much of a test.

2. I guessed at cls, but given #1, that's not much of a test.

3. However,

search clear

does hit the target, so what key words did you use?

[Guest]

help clear results

[Nick Cox]

That's the key difference between help and search.

help is, at the limit, for when you know the answer already.

search is for when you don't.

f I want to do principal component analysis, then as I know that the Stata command is named pca, I go straight there for help.

But if I didn't know the answer there are numerous plausible guesses. For example, I learned the other day that R uses princomp, which naturally is an entirely reasonable name. If I were a R user, primarily, then help princomp would be of precisely zero use in finding Stata's name, but search principal component gets there.

[Guest]

I see...
Still easy to fall into that trap. The menu item to select is Clear Results, so I assumed that's what I wanted...

Thanks for your kind help.