gtools

The gtools command is merely a wrapper for some high-level operations to do with package maintenance. See any of the commands below for details on how to use the programs provided by this package commands, or the introduction for an overview of the package and available commands.

Succintly, gtools is a Stata package that provides a fast implementation of common group commands like collapse, egen, isid, levelsof, contract, distinct, and so on using C plugins for a massive speed improvement.

This program helps the user manage their gtools installation.

Syntax

gtools [, options]

See gtools, examples for examples of how to use available gtools functions.

Options

• upgrade (alias install_latest) Upgrades gtools to the latest github version (default is master).

• licenses Prints the open source projects used in gtools

• verbose With licenses, prints the licenses of the open source projects used in gtools

• examples (alias showcase) Print examples of how to use available gtools functions.

• test[(str)] Run unit tests, optionally specifying which tests to run. Tests available are: dependencies, basic_checks, bench_test, comparisons, switches, bench_full. A good set of "small" tests which take 10-20 minutes are dependencies basic_checks bench_test. By default, however, the first 5 tests are run, which take 1-3h. The bulk of that time is from comparisons, which compares the results from gtools to that of various native counterparts under several different conditions. bench_full is not run by default because this benchmarks gtools against stata using modestly-sized data (millions). Some stata commands are very slow under some of the benchmarks, meaning this can take well over a day.

• branch(str) Github branch to use (default is master).