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Developing, maintaining, and hosting Stata statistical software on GitHub

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  • E. F. Haghish

    (Department of Psychology, University of Oslo)

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The popularity of GitHub is growing, among not only software developers but also statisticians and data scientists. In this article, I discuss why social coding platforms such as GitHub are preferable for developing, documenting, maintaining, and collaborating on statistical software. Furthermore, I introduce the github command version 2.0 for Stata, which facilitates building, searching, installing, and managing statistical packages hosted on GitHub. I also provide a command for searching filenames in all Stata packages published on the Statistical Software Components Archive and GitHub to ensure unique filenames and pack- age names, which is a common concern among Stata programmers. I make further suggestions to enhance the practice of developing and hosting statistical packages on GitHub as well as using them for data analysis.

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  • E. F. Haghish, 2020. "Developing, maintaining, and hosting Stata statistical software on GitHub," Stata Journal, StataCorp LP, vol. 20(4), pages 931-951, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:tsj:stataj:v:20:y:2020:i:4:p:931-951
    DOI: 10.1177/1536867X20976323
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