Re: st: do file script from text wrangler

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

Nirali, I think now that I understand your problem.  Your data is not  
in the same directory as your do-files. Now that you are starting  
Stata from your do-files with the dataninja script, Stata doesn't  
know where the data are. The solution is easy:  in the do-files (not  
the script) tell Stata where to find the data.

Here is the method I use. I create local macros to make it easy to  
refer to the data sets.  Suppose your data are in two different  
folders, data_1 and data_2 inside a "project" folder.  Create the  
following macros:

*************************************************
local dat1  "~/Documents/Curr_Proj/project/data_1/"     //path to data_1
local dat2  "~/Documents/Curr_Proj/project/data_2/"     //not used  
here, but handy if you need it

use `dat1'd1_01, clear   // use a data file in data_1
(some commands)
save `dat1'd1_02, replace  // save the changes in another file (never  
the same one!)
************************************************

Another possibility is to change the directory to your


To find the path to the do-files in BBEdit, I click the blue "i"  
button at the top of the document; one of the options is to copy the  
path to the clipboard.  I'm sure that you can do the same in Text  
Wrangler.  Tip: keep both the do-file and log folder and the data  
folders open where you can see them.

Good luck!

-Steve

On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Nirali Shah wrote:


> Hi,
>
> I recently downloaded the stata scripts from Dataninja.  One of  
> these scripts allows you to send your do file straight to stata.   
> However, it appears that it also automatically changes the path  
> directory to the path directory of the do file.  Since I keep my do  
> files and data files in different folders, every time I try and run  
> a do file from Text Wrangler, Stata tells me that the data files  
> are not found.
>
> Aside from inserting a change directory line into each of my do  
> files, is there a way I can change the script? I don't know  
> anything about scripting language - what would I have to look for  
> or write?
>
> Thank you,
> Nirali
> ____________________________________________________
> Nirali Shah
> PhD Candidate, International Health, Health Systems Division
> Bloomberg School of Public Health
> Johns Hopkins University
>
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