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Hey @arosenbe ,
I am not sure who is in charge of this repo but I wanted to share some code for STATA. I wrote a short .ado file to parse yaml file as we use them to define constants at the top of repositories (Typically in a constants.yaml type file) and write these to globals/locals. My file is located here. The original hope was sharing this code would help gslab use yaml files for STATA still.

unfortunately, I just noticed via a reference here that apparently a STATA YAML reader already exists, but was unable to locate it in gslab_stata or generic googling. So I thought I would open this issue to complete one of the following:

• input the referenced yaml program in the ad-price-driver STATA script as a part of gslab_stata so all gslab people have it.
• include my program so that everyone has a YAML parser
• include some other YAML reader I am unaware of as part of gslab_stata

I am going to go out on a limb and assume the referenced yaml reader in the ad-price-driver script is far more sophisticated than mine, and probably should be the standard one used.

Let me know your thoughts

In this issue we'll bring the autofill program we've written in Protests to this repo.

Increment to version 14.

Goal: to clarify how users install the repository's code libraries.

Let's drop all subdirectories of this repository except:

• /crosswalk/
• /gslab_misc/
• /xtreg_ch/

Let's also add a short readme inside each subdirectory summarizing what they do. For crosswalk and xtreag_ch you can base these on the help files. For gslab_misc you can keep the current readme but delete the "Description" header.

Hi, I am running Stata 14.2 on Windows and tried to follow the instructions to install gslab_misc given in the corresponding readme.md file. I got the following error:

. net uninstall benchmark 
package not found
r(111);

It looks like net uninstall fails when the package does not exist. Might it be better to just have a series of net install <package>, replace commands instead of a series of net uninstall, net install command pairs? Thanks