stata-tools

Various scripts for Stata

• cleanstates.ado: converts state variables to FIPS state code
  • can figure out state abbreviations and full state names
  • note that this creates a numeric FIPS with state name labels; the proper FIPS specification is a two-character string variable with a leading zero
• countyfipsrecode.ado: recodes county FIPS codes based on changes in county-equivalent jurisdictions
  • present-oriented for use in 2016
  • very much a draft and unusable at this point
• grepstr.ado: runs grep on string variable and returns new variable with matches
  • requires shell access to grep (Mac, Linux, etc.)
  • allows Stata 13 long strings
  • currently very inefficient, but Stata's regex is pretty limited
• shellout.ado: exports output of shell command to a local
  • useful for more powerful regular expressions
  • this is a rewrite of Nikos Askitas's ashell taking advantage of Stata 13's long-string support
• stbatch.ado: batch convert files to Stata format using StatTransfer
  • requires Roger Newson's stcmd and that path be set to StatTransfer CLI app (e.g., global StatTransfer_path /Applications/StatTransfer11/st)

Feel free to contribute by making a pull request.