Fred Wolfe
>
> Roger's new parmest mad me notice that if I issue the command
>
> ado des parmest (stata 8) the description that follows is of each
> description for each download. In total, that makes 6. Does
> anyone know how
> to make Stata forget or erase the previous descriptions?
>
-ado- is inbuilt, and not that accessible to
a user hack.
On my machine, the information read for this is in
c:\ado\stbplus\stata.trk
so here is a shot at reading that in as a Stata
data set and printing out packages installed
(in alpha order) and date _last_ installed.
program def forfred
version 7
qui {
preserve
clear
infix str pkg 1-80 using "c:\ado\stbplus\stata.trk"
keep if substr(pkg,1,1) == "D" | substr(pkg,1,1) == "N"
replace pkg = trim(substr(pkg,3,.))
egen byte which = seq(), to(2)
egen byte no = seq(), block(2)
reshape wide pkg, i(no) j(which)
bysort pkg1 (no) : keep if _n == _N
replace pkg1 = subinstr(pkg1,".pkg","",.)
rename pkg1 package
rename pkg2 date
}
list package date
end
Nick
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