Misha Bonch-O wrote:
> With sysdir set, we can specify a personal directory for ado-files,
> where Stata will look them up first.
> Is it possible to do the same for do-files ? Or for the datasets ?
> I prefer to keep my datasets and do-files that I run in the different
> directories.
> Therefore, if my current working directory is the one with the datasets,
> I always have to write a very long path to: do "longpath"a.do
>
> Other way, of course, is to set current directory with do-files, but I
> will have to write long path names when I use or save datasets.
> Is there way to set up a default directory, where Stata starts looking
> for do-files or datasets ?
> Thank you, for attention.
> Misha Bonch-Osmolovski.
> UNC-Chapel Hill.
One way is to define global macros in your "profile.do". If you have commands
like
----------------------------------------------profile.do
global em "M:/group/mygroup/myunit/ourdata/mydata/em"
global projdo "M:/group/mygroup/myunit/ourproject/mydofiles/"
--------------------------------------------------------
in "profile.do" you can use commands like
. dir $em/*.dta
. describe using $em/mydata
. do $projdo/an1.do
in your do files and interactively.
See -help profile- for a describtion of profile.do.
Another way is the package -fastcd- by Nick Winter, which can be installed
with
. ssc install fastcd
from the Boston-Archive.
Many regards
uli
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