stata-macros

I know my title is confusing in the sense that the tokenize command is specified to a string. I have many folders that contain massive, separated, ill-named Excel files (most of them are scraped from ahe website). It's inconvenient to select them manually so I need to rely on Stata extended macro function local :dir to read them. My code looks as follows: foreach file of local filelist { import excel "`file'", clear sxpose, clear save "`file'.dta", replace } Such code will generate many new dta files and the directory is thus full of these files. I prefer to create a single new data file for

I have thousands of city folders (for example city1 , city2 , and so on, but in reality named like NewYork , Boston , etc.). Each folder further contains two subfolders: land and house . So the directory structure is like: current dictionary ---- city1 ----- house ------ many .xlsx files ----- land ----- city2 ----- city3 ··· ----- city1000 I want to get the complete list of all subdirs and do some manipulation (like import excel ). I know there is a macro extended function: local list: dir to handle this issue, but it seems it can only return the first tier of subdirs, like city_i , rather

I have various Stata data files. These are located in different folders. I also have a single do file that uses these files, one at a time. Is there a way to use a macro to reference a particular dataset in my do file? For example: local datafile = "C:\filepath\mydata.dta" The idea is to use this later in the code as follows: use `datafile', clear Defining the macro as a global variable works. But I don't want to make it global, so it doesn't prevent me from running two separate programs at a time. The global definition (without the dta extension) is: global datafile = "C:\filepath\mydata"

I am a Stata user trying to learn R. I have a couple of lengthy folder paths which, in my Stata code, I stored as local macros. I have multiple files in both those folders to use in my analysis. I know, in R, I can change the working directory each time I want to refer to a file in one of the folders but it is definitely not a good way to do it. Even if I store the folder paths as strings in R, I can't figure out how to refer to those. For example, in Stata I would use `folder1'. I am wondering if trying to re-write Stata code line by line in R is not the best way to learn R. Can someone

I am trying to use Python for statistical analysis. In Stata I can define local macros and expand them as necessary: program define reg2 syntax varlist(min=1 max=1), indepvars(string) results(string) if "`results'" == "y" { reg `varlist' `indepvars' } if "`results'" == "n" { qui reg `varlist' `indepvars' } end sysuse auto, clear So instead of: reg2 mpg, indepvars("weight foreign price") results("y") I could do: local options , indepvars(weight foreign price) results(y) reg2 mpg `options' Or even: local vars weight foreign price local options , indepvars(`vars') results(y) reg2 mpg `options'