Two other options are:
You can make other editors act like the Stata do-file editor, so you
won't have cut and past commands, see:
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html
Instead of storing ado files along your personal adopath, you can store
them anywhere and -cd- to the directory where it is stored. After that
the program is available. I use this trick when I am changing one of my
programs. While programming I often run a test file that contains lines
like these:
local home "h"
use "`home':/mijn documenten/projecten/stata/hangroot/cavalry.dta"
// where I store my new version
cd "`home':/mijn documenten/projecten/stata/hangroot/1.2.2/"
hangroot deaths [fw=freq], dist(poisson)
This way I can check whether my program works, but when I want to do
use my program for real work, Stata will default to the program stored
along the ado-path.
As an aside, the local home is due to the fact that at work I work from
the H drive, while at home I work from my C drive, otherwise the paths
are exactly the same. So all I need to do change the local home from c
to h or vise versa when I work at home or at work.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Stata 10: When I copy the code into a do file and run it, it takes
> > about a second, same as Maarten. But when I copy the code into the
>
> > command window, it takes 18 seconds.
>
> Ah, that is unexpected behaviour, though in my case it takes about 8
> seconds.
>
> There are three things you can do, that are both more convenient, and
> avoid this problem. First, you can open the do-file editor and run it
> from there, as described in
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html#work
>
> Second, you can type in stata
> do
>
http://www2.jura.uni-hamburg.de/instkrim/kriminologie/Mitarbeiter/Enzmann/Software/reprate.do
>
> Or of course -do path/reprate.do- , where path the where the do file
> is
> stored on your computer.
>
> Third, you can store the three programs in separate files with the
> extension ado instead of do in in your personal adopath. You can find
> where that is by typing -adopath- within Stata. Once you have done
> that, the programs will be directly available every time you use
> Stata
> on that computer as any other Stata program.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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