Welcome to the statacons home page

Paper: Guiteras, Raymond, Ahnjeong Kim, Brian Quistorff and Clayson Shumway, "statacons: An SCons-based build tool for Stata," CEnREP Working Paper 22-001, May 2022, https://go.ncsu.edu/cenrep-wp-22-001. Accepted, The Stata Journal. PDF.

Installation instructions:

• Requirements
• Step 1: Python Setup
• Step 2: statacons installation and setup
• Step 3: Test run with Introductory Example
• Updating statacons

Appendices:

• Appendices
  • A. Other Advanced Features
  • B. Collaborative Workflows
  • C. Compiling a PDF from the Introductory Example

Stata package documentation:

• statacons
• stataconsign
• complete_datasignature

Project repository (for issues, bug reports, and contributions)

• https://github.com/bquistorff/statacons

Project wiki page (additional options and features)

• https://github.com/bquistorff/statacons/wiki

Web tutorial based on Software Carpentry's make lesson:

• statacons Web Tutorial
  • Setup
  • Introduction
  • A Simple SConstruct file
  • Solution for "Exercise: Write Two New Rules"
  • Variables
  • Parameters
  • Solution for "Exercise: Parameters"
  • Separation of Concerns Part 1: Separating Analysis from Presentation
  • Separation of Concerns Part 2: Separating Metadata and Data

Python package API documentation:

• Python Package API documentation

OSF archive (software, replication code and data):

• https://osf.io/gbh4m/

MetaArXiV paper archive:

• https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/qesx6

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page