HALLTOOL - A Stata Toolbox

Introduction

halltool is a Stata package that provides a set of tools for data analysis and visualization developed by Xinya HAO (Hall).

Installation

You can view the source codes from GitHub .

You can install halltool using github command in Stata.

* Install github
net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")

* Install halltool from github
github install LissHall/halltool
help halltool
help rm2

Command List

1. whichdep
   • Install and update all specified ssc and net packages at once.
   • Add this command at the beginning of the do file to avoid errors due to uninstalled dependencies after sharing the do file.
2. xpctile
   • Calculate the percentile of a given value in a variable.
3. rm2
   • Enhanced version of rm/erase command.
   • Delete multiple files and delete files by file types in one command.
   • Avoid errors due to file not found.
4. gradd_ab
   • Add asterisk brackets to a graph.

Origional bar plot (left) —> After gradd_ab

5. csv2dta
   • Transform all the .csv in a folder to .dta in one command.
6. frmstr
   • Format long string variables in one command.
7. appdtas
   • Append all the .dta in a folder to one .dta file.

Other resources

• colorpalette_hallshue.ado
  • A collection of color palettes for Stata.

• scheme-hall.scheme
  • A customized scheme file for Stata.
  • A _gen_scheme_egs.do file is provided for generating some example graphs using the scheme file.