Of course if you are on the Statalist you already know. Details here. New features include a proper editor with syntax highlighting, full pdf documentation, support for interaction terms typed directly in your estimation expression -- the lack of which used to be a reason to prefer R -- and a full kit of object-oriented [...]

If you collaborate with people who use other statistical software with proprietary data file formats, you will find Stat/Transfer useful for converting between Stata and said software. How to do that using the Stat/Transfer GUI is easy enough to figure out. But you can also run Stat/Transfer from within Stata. If you are on a [...]

Occasionally a need arises to move things between computers. You might, for example, be getting about 20 gigabytes of data per week, use it to re-run your model so your parameter estimates stay up to date, and then you must make room for next week's batch.
For this sort of job you probably have a remote [...]

Local access to an NFS share is useful enough that I want it enabled by default, without the need for the mount command as shown in my previous post.
This default access to the server share also goes by the name "auto-mount". You have two options for setting it up: using the autofs utility or a [...]