Michael Droste

I had a few relevant comments for this discussion. - I think that strings are occasionally somewhat useful *even with* big datasets. For instance, it is often more efficient to...

Hey Mauricio - I totally understand about the complete rewriting the codebase of gtools - I do not intend to relitigate the earlier discussion here. My point was basically that...

Hi! This is an interesting idea, but I'm going to say no for the sole reason that it's a little particular (for instance, I keep track of this information usually...

Hi Tim! Good to see you here :) Unfortunately the answer is not at the moment: I completely agree it would be useful. I'll leave this open because I would...

Much delayed, the next update (in the next few days) will, among many other changes, fix this issue. Users will now be prompted whether to engage in an attempt to...

László - thanks so much for your thoughts! I'm a big fan of your work on portfolio choice with Raj ;) I agree with everything you raise, particularly (now that...

Just out of curiosity: would it be a serious problem if the recommendation was to have a vanilla Python installation for Stata, at least for now? I'm interested in your...

I like this idea, but I'm going to leave it for now for the simple reason that it's trickier than it needs to be to implement. The graph is actually...

Hey Laszlo, Definitely! As I think Sergio pointed out on the gtools issue you created, it is really irksome that preserve/restores are now implicit frames in some versions of Stata...