I think there are three answers here.
First, use absolute not relative names.
cd c:\data\scholar\Hannah
should work so long as you can get there
from wherever you are (including being
there in the first place).
Second, you are on Windows, but use
forward slashes nevertheless. Stata will
interpret that for you when talking to
your OS. Otherwise, sooner or
later you will get bitten by the multiple
interpretation of backward slashes.
cd c:/data/scholar/Hannah
Third, -capture- is a command you might
want to learn about.
Nick
[email protected]
Christopher W. Ryan, MD
> If I am in a directory, say C:data\scholar\Hannah, and I type
>
> -cd Hannah-
>
> I get an error message, as one might expect.
>
> I am just learning to use .do files for the bulk of my
> analyses and data
> manipulations, a la Svend Juul's great book. I usually try
> to -cd- to
> the relevant project directory somewhere near the begining of a .do
> file, then open the data file.
>
> But if I am *already in* that directory when I run the .do
> file, Stata
> gives the same sort of error:
>
> cd Hannah
> unable to change to Hannah
> r(170);
> end of do-file
>
> Is there a way to cd on a conditional basis, such as "if I'm
> not already
> in the Hannah directory, then change to it"? Would this
> require using
> something like
>
> if c(pwd) !=
>
> Since all of my project files are nested under a single directory for
> research projects, I suppose I could always put in my
> do-files a -cd- to
> that directory before the -cd- to the particular project directory.
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