Description

stataRun allow you to run stata codes (.do .ado) and commands from within Visual Studio Code editor. Thus you can take advantage of an editor for syntax highlighting. You may want to install Stata-Enhanced and Stata-Language for syntax highlighting and other features

Features

The following command and keyboard shortcut are implemented (crtl to be replace by cmd on MacOS)

• shift+ctrl+a: Run All Lines ==> This will run the entire file
• shift+ctrl+s: Run Selection ==> To run a given slection. If no selection is made it default to Run All
• shift+ctrl+c: Run Current Line ==> This will run the current line code
• shift+ctrl+d: Run Downward Lines==> from current line to downward
• shift+ctrl+f: Run Frontward Lines ==> from first line till current line

Settings derived from stata-exec, which provide the same features for Atom.

Requirements

Linux

Requirements for Linux are xdotool and xclip as in the Atom version

Windows

Installation instructions for Windows basically follows the original Atom stata-exec building manual with some modifications for code.

1. Install the runStata package. I also recommend the Stata Enhanced package for code highlighting.

2. Install Node. The original instructions indicated to install this specific version of Node with default settings. I followed the instructions and haven't tried it with other versions.

3. The stataRun extension needs a module called wimax to be compiled into a binary file. To do this Node needs windows-build-tools with Python2.7 and Visual Studio compiler packages. The installation takes some time (over 20 min. in my case) and couple of GB of disk space. To install it open up an administrator PowerShell (you can right click on the Windows icon at the bottom left and select "Windows PowerShell (Admin)") and type in:

   npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
   

   In my case the original command ended with an error, so I used this one with success:

   npm install --global --production windows-build-tools@2.2.1
   

4. Open up Command Prompt (type cmd in the search bar in the dock, and it will be the first result) and type in:

   cd %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\yeaoh.statarun-1.1.8
   npm install winax --python=%USERPROFILE%\.windows-build-tools\python27\python.exe
   

   In VSCode go into Help -> About. From there save the Electron version. In the next command replace ELECTRON_VERSION with the version from the About dialogue.

   npm rebuild winax --runtime=electron --target=ELECTRON_VERSION  --build-from-source
   

5. Link the Stata Automation library. The following steps worked for me on Windows 10. The Stata executable is most likely in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata15.

   1. In the installation directory, right-click on the Stata executable, for example, StataSE.exe. Choose "Create Shortcut".
   2. Right-click on the newly created "Shortcut to StataSE.exe", choose "Property", and change the Target from "C:\Program Files\Stata13\StataSE.exe" to "C:\Program Files\Stata13\StataSE.exe" /Register. Click "OK".
   3. Right-click on the updated "Shortcut to StataSE.exe"; choose "Run as administrator"

   While you're doing that, add the path of the Stata executable to the "Stata Path" option in the settings.

6. Restart code and enjoy executing Stata code from code! (I hope...).

Known Issues

Only tested with Mac Os so far. Please and try create issues if any. Feel free to contributes.

Installation

Install as a normal vscode extension by searcing for stataRun in the vscode extension marketplace

Release

2.0.3

• Improvement for working on Windows and Linux