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TiesdeKok / ipystata

Enables the use of Stata together with Python via Jupyter (IPython) notebooks.
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Stata14 in Linux with wine #13

Closed mbaker21231 closed 8 years ago

mbaker21231 commented 8 years ago

Hi Ties --

I hope all is well. I'm writing just to put something on your radar screen. At my place of employment, we don't have Stata14 in Linux format, but I switched anyways. As it happens, there is a program called wine that can run .exe files in Linux, and it works very nicely with Stata.

Anyways, my question is as follows: while you say that ipystata will not work in interactive mode with linux, is it possible that ipystata running an .exe file through wine in linux might?

Just curious what your thoughts are.

Matt

TiesdeKok commented 8 years ago

Hi Matt,

I have encountered other people that were using a similar setup. It is unfortunate that the Stata 14 installation files are not easily available for multiple platforms, especially given that most Stata licenses are not platform specific (as far as I know).

It is definitely an interesting thought to utilize wine to enable interactive mode with ipystata. Unfortunately, I am fairly certain that it will not work. The interactivity flows through functionality of the Windows operation system (called Windows Automation API), this is lacking on a Unix based OS.

I have been playing with the idea of using Stata in so-called "interactive console mode" to provide interactivity for ipystata on unix systems. However, I haven't looked at the whether it is possible and feasible to program communication with such a console instance.

In a month I will be talking about ipystata during the 2016 Stata Conference, maybe the Stata engineers can help me figure out the best way to achieve this. :smile:

mbaker21231 commented 8 years ago

Ties --

I see - I didn't know that that was how and why it worked with windows, and I can see you have thought about this in more depth than I! It will be interesting to see what the folks at the conference have to say about this.

Best,

Matt