STaTa

Warning

The stata site licence only allows 4 consecutive cores per job. Meaning batch jobs cant use more than 4 cores. Please DO NOT request more than 4 cores as the additional cores will not be used, lowering your efficiency.

Stata is a complete, integrated statistical software package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics.

Interactive usage

After connecting to Stanage (see Establishing a SSH connection), start an interactive session with the following command:

srun --pty bash -i

STaTa can be loaded with the command:

module load Stata/18

After this any of the STAR commands can be run from the terminal prompt. The available commands can be obtained using:

stata -h

Batch usage

The following is an example batch submission script, my_job.sh, to run the executable stata. The script requests 4 cores with a runtime of 5 minutes and 1 GB of memory.

Stata script hello_world.do :

disp "Hello world"

Batch script my_job.sh :

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=stata_test
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=4
#SBATCH --mem=1000
#SBATCH --output=output_stata_4.%j.out
#SBATCH --time=00:05:00
#SBATCH --mail-user=a.person@sheffield.ac.uk
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL

module load stata/18.0
stata -b hello_world.do

The job is submitted to the queue by typing:

$ sbatch my_job.sh

Installation notes

Installation method

This section is primarily for administrators of the system. STaTa has been installed using the default Easybuild config files.

Build logs and test reports can be found in $EBROOTSTATA/easybuild with a given module loaded.

The stata license was added manually by following the instructions here.

Testing

Testing was performed using the above example.