15.8 Run Stata code

You can run Stata (https://www.stata.com) code with the stata engine if you have installed Stata. Unless the stata executable can be found via the environment variable PATH, you need to specify the full path to the executable via the chunk option engine.path, e.g., engine.path = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Stata15/StataSE-64.exe". The following is a quick example:

```{stata}
sysuse auto
summarize
```

The stata engine in knitr is quite limited. Doug Hemken has substantially extended it in the Statamarkdown package, which is available on GitHub at https://github.com/Hemken/Statamarkdown. You may find tutorials about this package by searching online for “Stata R Markdown.”