LINK STATA TO PYTHON

Update Stata to latest version. Need Stata 17 or 16.

In Anaconda go to CMD launch

pip install stata_setup

import stata_setup

python

import stata_setup

stata_setup.config(‘c:/program files/stata17/’,’mp’)

In Stata

help python

If this does not work then in Stata give command

python set exec “c:/ProgramDatata/Anaconda3/python.exe”,  permanently

or python set exec c:/ProgramDatata/Anaconda3/python.exe,  permanently

https://www.stata.com/python/pystata/notebook/Quick%20Start0.html

 
A standard test to see if Python is running is to give the command  print('hello')

DOCUMENTATION

In addition to help python and the associated pdf manual entry

go to  https://www.stata.com/python/api17/ for Stata’s Python API documentation (sfi)

and see the blogs https://blog.stata.com/2020/08/18/stata-python-integration-part-1-setting-up-stata-to-use-python/
https://blog.stata.com/2020/08/25/stata-python-integration-part-2-three-ways-to-use-python-in-stata/
The next blog should be unnecessary if you have already installed these packages through e.g. installing Anacanonda
https://blog.stata.com/2020/09/01/stata-python-integration-part-3-how-to-install-python-packages/

Then there are several examples. The following may be useful
https://blog.stata.com/2020/10/13/stata-python-integration-part-7-machine-learning-with-support-vector-machines/
https://blog.stata.com/2020/11/05/stata-python-integration-part-8-using-the-stata-function-interface-to-copy-data-from-stata-to-python/
  

ASIDE: USING R WITH STATA

Stata has no built-in link with R.

To use Stata within R there is an R package Rstata

To use R from Stata there is a Stata user-written command Rcall

Alternatively to use R within Stata one can use the Stata shell command.
This varies with computer operating system – in Stata type help shell
The following Stata example in Windows executes an R program (here myRprogram.R) that reads in a Stata dataset, does some calculations, and updates the dataset. The Stata dataset needs to be version 12 as R does not read later versions.
saveold "./results/appdat.dta", replace version(12)
shell /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R --vanilla < myRprogram.R
use "./results/appdat.dta", clear