A lazy fix (without installing any SSC package) is to change to the
root directory at the beginning of all do files before you do the cd
command. If you're already in C:\data\scholar\Hannah, type:
cd \
would take you to the root directory C:\. Similarily if you're in
D:\data\scholar\Hannah, if you type cd \, it'd take you to D:\.
On 5/16/06, Christopher W. Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
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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and Wilson Family Practice Residency, Johnson City, NY
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