Stata, now native in Positron

[ntluong95]

Introducing STATA for Positron — a full-featured extension bringing interactive Stata workflows into the Positron IDE, built exclusively for the next generation of data science tooling.

🔗 Install: open-vsx.org/extension/ntluong95/positron-stata

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STATA has long been the workhorse for researchers in economics, epidemiology, and social sciences — but it lived outside the modern IDE ecosystem. Bringing STATA into Positron IDE means you can now leverage LLM support — code suggestions, documentation, and debugging — without ever leaving your session. This extension changes that. Every key component of a STATA session — console, data explorer, plots, help, history — is now a first-class pane inside Positron, right alongside your R and Python sessions.

Key Features

Console

Interactive STATA console backed by the MCP server, showing session startup and the prompt for running commands.

Data Explorer

Interactive data viewer showing variables, brief summaries and a spreadsheet-like table for browse output. It also support display variable label as a tooltip, summary statistics and filtering data

DO-file Editor & Syntax

STATA .do file editor with syntax highlighting, inline execution controls, and integrated results.

Environment & Plots

Session variables and Plots pane — exported STATA graphs render directly inside Positron.

Help Pane

Rendered STATA help topics with syntax, options and examples available inline in the Help pane.

History

Command history panel that preserves executed commands and can re-run or send commands back to the console.

Inline Output (Quarto)

Preview of STATA output embedded inline in Quarto (.qmd) documents — rendered code results and plots appear directly alongside narrative text.

Why Positron?

Positron is the next-generation, open-source IDE from Posit — a VS Code fork purpose-built for data science. STATA for Positron is built exclusively for this environment, taking advantage of its multi-language session model, native pane system, and deep integration with Quarto. If you're already using Positron for R or Python, STATA now slots in naturally alongside them.

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Try It & Share Feedback

This is an early release and I'd love to hear how it works in your workflows. Bug reports, feature requests, and general impressions are all welcome.

• 📦 Install: Open VSX Registry
• 🐛 Issues & feedback: GitHub

[kv9898]

Wow this is actually super impressive!!!

[EBukin]

That is indeed amazing! Thank you for implementhing this!
I wonder if this Stata integration could be made by default in Positron?

[randrescastaneda]

WOW. I have not words to express how happy I am with this extension. It works great. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

[congminh6]

Điều này thật tuyệt vời. Thank you @ntluong95

[codeswitching]

Wow! My team is in the process of migrating an old Stata project to R, and this may be perfect.