-which- looks for commands rather than packages. On occasion that would fail whenever a package name does not correspond to a command name.
Nick
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Sven-Oliver Spieß
I feel like the 'which' command could be your friend.
You could add something like this to your profile.do:
---Beginning example---
foreach package in pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 {
capture which `package'
if _rc==111 ssc install `package'
}
---End example---
See 'help which' and 'help profile' for more details.
Jan Sauermann wrote:
> I work on different computers and would Stata to automatically check
> whether a number of ado-files is installed on a local machine. My idea
> was to write something like
>
> [a command which checks whether one ado-file is installed / or not]
> if package!=installed {
> ssc install package
> }
>
> My problem is basically to find a command which (1) checks whether an
> ado file is installed and (2) gives me a local as return.
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