Google Colab Support

[elliottash]

Collaborative stata code editing and execution would be great, and especially useful for teaching purposes.

Stata kernel support for Google Colab would be an elegant solution.

While other languages are not officially supported in Colab, there is a work-around by replacing the Python 2 kernel with another kernel. Here is an example for R:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1xj_aYLBBPX2oSQ1I4xp5_YZiVhhpC1Ke#scrollTo=WzpJq3ZrrDS3

Some more relevant information for the case of R is here:

https://github.com/IRkernel/IRkernel

I was able to install stata on the colab by downloading a pre-compiled version. I can't share the notebook publicly but can send it to those who want to help develop this feature.

[roblem]

I am interested in how you setup stata in colab. Do you have to "install" it each time you open the notebook? Asking because I'd like to transition my classes to using jupyter as a stata frontend and something easy and seamless is required.