Stata doesn't even version its packages, so it's literally impossible to reprodu...

Stata doesn't even version its packages, so it's literally impossible to reproduce research as you can't retrieve the packages as they were then.

The maintainer of a popular package could choose to change their api today and all code using it would break with no way to revert.

Stata is insanity.

Gimpei on Oct 13, 2019 [–]

I agree. And it's expensive whereas R is free and a much much much better language.