do2screen

Review any section of your Stata do-file, right in the console.

do2screen v5.0

Review any section of your Stata do-file — directly in the console

Ever lost track of how a variable was built across a thousand-line script?
do2screen puts all the relevant code in one place, instantly.

github install randrescastaneda/do2screen

Get Started Reference

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What do2screen does

🔍 Variable Tracing

Trace exactly how a variable was created and modified — including all parent variables. No more scrolling through thousands of lines.

do2screen using "analysis.do", ///
    var(pchincome)

🔎 String Search

Find every occurrence of a word or phrase in your do-file, with configurable lines of context around each match.

do2screen using "analysis.do", ///
    find("poverty line") lines(10)

📄 Line Range

Display any block of lines from your do-file — by start/end line numbers or by start + count.

do2screen using "analysis.do", ///
    range(253 263)

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Quick install

Recommended (via github)

First install the github package by E. F. Haghish, then install do2screen:

net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")
github install randrescastaneda/do2screen

Direct (net install)

net install do2screen, ///
    from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/randrescastaneda/do2screen/master/") ///
    replace

TipRequires Stata 16.1 or higher

do2screen v5.0 uses Stata frames for internal data handling.

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Authors

Developed by R. Andres Castaneda (The World Bank) and Santiago Garriga (Universidad Nacional de La Plata).

Licensed under the MIT License.