Subject Table of Contents
This is the complete contents for all of the Reference manuals.
Getting Started
[GS] Getting Started manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting Started with Stata for Macintosh
[GS] Getting Started manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting Started with Stata for Unix
[GS] Getting Started manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting Started with Stata for Windows
[U] User’s Guide, Chapter 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resources for learning and using Stata
[R] help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Obtain online help
Data manipulation and management
Basic data commands
[R] describe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Describe contents of data in memory or on disk
[R] display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Substitute for a hand calculator
[R] drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eliminate variables or observations
[R] edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edit and list data using Data Editor
[R] egen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Extensions to generate
[R] generate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Create or change contents of variable
[R] list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List values of variables
[R] memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Memory size considerations
[R] obs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Increase the number of observations in a dataset
[R] sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sort data
Functions and expressions
[U] User’s Guide, Chapter 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Functions and expressions
[R] egen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Extensions to generate
[R] functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Functions
Dates
[U] User’s Guide, Section 15.5.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Date formats
[U] User’s Guide, Chapter 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commands for dealing with dates
[R] functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Functions
Inputting and saving data
[U] User’s Guide, Chapter 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commands to input data
[R] edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edit and list data using Data Editor
[R] infile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quick reference for reading data into Stata
[R] insheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Read ASCII (text) data created by a spreadsheet
[R] infile (free format) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Read unformatted ASCII (text) data
[R] infix (fixed format) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Read ASCII (text) data in fixed format
[R] infile (fixed format) . . . . . . . . . Read ASCII (text) data in fixed format with a dictionary
[R] input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enter data from keyboard
[R] odbc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Load data from ODBC sources
[R] outfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Write ASCII-format dataset
[R] outsheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Write spreadsheet-style dataset
[R] save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Save and use datasets