Developing, maintaining, and hosting Stata statistical software on GitHub

E. F. Haghish ()
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E. F. Haghish: Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

Stata Journal, 2020, vol. 20, issue 4, 931-951

Abstract: The popularity of GitHub is growing, among not only software developers but also statisticians and data scientists. In this article, I discuss why social coding platforms such as GitHub are preferable for developing, documenting, maintaining, and collaborating on statistical software. Furthermore, I introduce the github command version 2.0 for Stata, which facilitates building, searching, installing, and managing statistical packages hosted on GitHub. I also provide a command for searching filenames in all Stata packages published on the Statistical Software Components Archive and GitHub to ensure unique filenames and pack- age names, which is a common concern among Stata programmers. I make further suggestions to enhance the practice of developing and hosting statistical packages on GitHub as well as using them for data analysis.

Keywords: github; version control; social coding; social computing; statis- tics software; data mining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/1536867X20976323

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