Re: st: file name problem with stata2mplus

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Greetings

  Indeed, Anders has identified the exact issue... My practice was to save the file into 
the same folder, just specifying a file name, and never bumped into this. However, this is 
a better way to approach this and I have asked the kind people at UCLA ATS stat consulting 
to update the program when they have a chance.

  In the meanwhile, you can store the file into the current folder (by just specifying a 
file name) and then you could use the -copy- command to copy the file to another location 
as needed.

Best regards,

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-12-20 7.29 AM, Anders Alexandersson wrote:
> Evelyn, I can reproduce the problem using Stata/SE 11.1 for Windows (32 bit).
>
> The -stata2mplus- command is a user-written program by Michael
> Mitchell. You may also want to consider the user-written command
> -runmplus-.
>
> There appears to be a small problem in -stata2mplus- on line 40 which,
> I think, should read:
> outsheet using "`using'.dat" , comma nonames nolabel `replace'
>
> Your workaround was good because it was simple and it worked. You
> should be able to rename directories (folders) and files without
> having to use a USB stick.
> Another workaround is to fix the code on line 40. If you do this, then
> I suggest you also rename the program on lines 7 and 8 to something
> else, for example to -stata2mplus2-, and add a comment at the top. You
> would then use the modified program.
>
> Anders Alexandersson
> andersalex@gmail.com
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010, Evelyn Ersanilli<evelyn.ersanilli@qeh.ox.ac.uk>  wrote:
> > I've been experiencing some problems with converting a file from Stata to Mplus using the 'stata2mplus' command
> > The problem is that the command does not seem to accept spaces in the destination file/folder name.
> > The normal Stata strategy of using quotation marks doesn't seem to work
> > I've tried:
> >
> > stata2mplus using  "C:\My Documents\Pilot 2" , replace
> > invalid 'Documents'
> > r(198);
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > I've found a work-around by putting the file on a USB stick so that I can lose the 'My Documents' part, but I feel that there must be a better way.
> > Any suggestions?
>
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