Literate data analysis with Stata and Markdown

Germán Rodríguez ()
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Germán Rodríguez: Princeton University

Stata Journal, 2017, vol. 17, issue 3, 600-618

Abstract: In this article, I introduce markstat, a command for combining Stata code and output with comments and annotations written in Markdown into a beautiful webpage or PDF file, thus encouraging literate programming and repro- ducible research. The command tangles the input separating Stata and Markdown code, runs the Stata code, relies on Pandoc to process the Markdown code, and then weaves the outputs into a single file. HTML documents may include inline and display math using MathJax. Generating PDF output requires access to LATEX and a style file from Stata but works with the same input file.

Keywords: markstat; Markdown; Pandoc; LATEX literate programming; dynamic documents; reproducible research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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