Modern Stata Project Demo

This is a demonstration of a modern Stata project structure that integrates Jupyter notebooks, Quarto, and VSCode for data analysis and reporting. You can find explantions in

• Zenn(in Japanese)

Preparation

VSCode

• Install Visual Studio Code
• Install VSCode extensions for Jupyter, Quarto, and Stata

Jupyter and Quarto

• Setup a Python environment with Jupyter
• Install pystata and nbstata
• Install Quarto

Stata

1. Following reproo-files, set up reproot-env.yaml in your home directory
2. Clone this repository
3. Install dependencies in Stata

ssc install repkit
ssc install estout

Project Structure

• notebook/ - Quarto notebooks with analysis
• manuscript/ - LaTeX manuscript
• code/ - Stata do files
• data/ - Data files
• output/ - Generated figures and tables

You can try if you can run code/penguins.do cell by cell by vscode-stata extension and compile the notebook notebook/penguins.qmd to HTML or PDF.