Statpipe 0.1.7

Pipe stuff to Stata, get results back.

# Statpipe

Statpipe is a simple command line utility allowing Stata commands to be piped into Stata, and the output returned. 2 For example:

echo “di 2+2” | statpipe . di 2^2 4

You can also use in interactive mode (although state isn’t saved across calculations):

statpipe > Enter a stata expression (e.g. di 2*2): di 2*2 > Cached output re-used > . di 2*2 > 4

Or from a Python script you can import and use like so:

from statpipe import run_stata_code print run_stata_code(“di 2+2”).split(”n”) > [’. di 2+2’, ‘4’, ‘’]

To install, download and:

cd statpipe python setup.py install #you might need to sudo if installing in system python

or

pip install statpipe

## Dependencies

Obviously depends on Stata.

Tested with version 12 through 14 on OS X. Should work for Linux/Unix too.