st: RE: Check whether ado file is installed

["Tharyan, Rajesh" <R.Tharyan@exeter.ac.uk>]

How about this?

local required_ados " example1.ado example2.ado" //add the required ados here//
foreach x of local required_ados {
capture findfile `x'.ado		
if _rc==601 {
ssc install `x'

Hope this helps
Rajesh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jan Sauermann
Sent: 14 December 2009 01:05
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: Check whether ado file is installed

Dear Stata list,

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.

Best regards,

Jan
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