st: Adopath

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

I have a problem with ado paths that perhaps someone might help with.

On my home machine

. adopath
  [1]  (UPDATES)   "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\updates/"
  [2]  (BASE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\base/"
  [3]  (SITE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\site/"
  [4]              "."
  [5]  (PERSONAL)  "c:\ado\personal/"
  [6]  (PLUS)      "c:\ado\stbplus/"
  [7]  (OLDPLACE)  "c:\ado/"

I have this.

On my office machine, I have a special problem. The office network has ados 
and data on the network. That allows everyone to have a common source of 
files. In general, they do not have "personal" ado.

These users have the following path:


  [1]              "//Fs-arc\statastuff\statdata\DataConvert/"
  [2]  (UPDATES)   "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\updates/"
  [3]  (BASE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\base/"
  [4]  (SITE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\site/"
  [5]              "."
  [6]  (PERSONAL)  "c:\ado\personal/"
  [7]  (PLUS)      "c:\ado\stbplus/"
  [8]  (OLDPLACE)  "c:\ado/"

[1] is the common set of ados

This creates a problem when [1] contains an older ado file that is also in 
[BASE} as [1] executes first.

I can easily do this:

. adopath
  [1]  (UPDATES)   "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\updates/"
  [2]  (BASE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\base/"
  [3]  (SITE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\site/"
  [4]              "."
  [5]  (PERSONAL)  "c:\ado\personal/"
  [6]  (PLUS)      "c:\ado\stbplus/"
  [7]  (OLDPLACE)  "c:\ado/"
  [8]              "//Fs-arc\statastuff\statdata\DataConvert/"

But what I really need to do is to do is to have

 "//Fs-arc\statastuff\statdata\DataConvert/"

optionally come before or after  [5]  (PERSONAL)  "c:\ado\personal/"
, but always after:

  [1]  (UPDATES)   "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\updates/"
  [2]  (BASE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\base/"
  [3]  (SITE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\site/"

I don't see a clear way to do that with the commands in help adopath.

Any suggestions? or am I overlooking something very simple (probably).




Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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