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Re: st: transfer installed ados from one computer to another


From   Christopher Swearingen <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: transfer installed ados from one computer to another
Date   Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:13:18 -0600

Paolo -

The sysprofile.do is a two command .do file executed when Stata first runs.

Assuming you are using Windows, the following two commands are in the file:

sysdir set PLUS "C:\Users\[localusername]\Dropbox\ado\plus"
sysdir set PERSONAL "C:\Users\[localusername]\Dropbox\ado\personal"

where [localusername] = whatever username Windows designates for the
particular account.

The other variable here is where your actual Dropbox / Cubby /
GoogleDrive local drive is stored.

Save sysprofile.do into the root Stata directory and restart Stata.
You should see a confirmation echo that sysprofile.do was called.
Type "sysdir" in the command window and you should see the directory
locations for PLUS and PERSONAL are changed.

~c
________________________________________________________
Christopher J. Swearingen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Genetics and Biostatistics
Associate Director, Pediatric Biostatistics
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
One Children's Way, Slot 512-43
Little Rock, AR 72202

http://www.arpediatrics.org/research/biostatistics




On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Paolo Moncagatta
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.  It seems like a system like
> Dropbox or Cubby would work nicely, as the optimal solution would be
> to have an .ado library that synchronized automatically from whichever
> computer you used (I have some .ados at home, some others at my
> office, and so, if I just replaced the whole .ado library on one
> computer with another, I would lose some of them).
>
> How have your experiences been, Christopher and Alan? When you have
> time, Christopher, could you go a bit more in detail on how you setup
> the sysprofile.do to direct the PLUS and PERSONAL directories to your
> Dropbox?
>
> Also, Alan, I am not familiar with Cubby. Would it work better than
> Dropbox for this purpose?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Paolo
> [email protected]
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Correct.  Stata leaves a record in various stata.trk files (and
>> sometimes others).
>> But copying a block of installed ado files should copy it too.
>>
>> Nick
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>> On 2 December 2013 17:03, Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is something I've wondered in the past. I found that simply copying them across computers to the right directory will make the commands available to the new installation. However, when you run -adoupdate- Stata does not seem to have a list of the installed ado files. So I wonder if there is a file with the list that is updated every time you install an ado that -adoupdate- reads and we ought to copy as well.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver
>>>
>>>> On Dec 2, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Paolo Moncagatta <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> A very simple question: is there any way to transfer the ados I have
>>>> installed on one computer to another one? Or do I have to install them
>>>> one by one in the new computer?
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Paolo
>>>> [email protected]
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