Re: st: changing adopath and profile.do with mac OSX

[Nirali Shah <nmshah@jhsph.edu>]

Thanks Daniel for your advice.  This method worked, up to a point.   
Now, my profile.do runs on startup of stata, which is a major victory!
But when I try to download a user created ado file, such as  
"lean1.scheme", I get the following error:

cannot write in directory ~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/plus/s

In fact, this folder does not exist yet...but in Windows, the folder  
used to be created automatically.  What must I do to tell the Mac to  
create this folder?

I appreciate it.
Nirali



Hallo Nirali -

I have my profile.do in the same directory as Stata.app. It reads:

sysdir set OLDPLACE "~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/"
sysdir set PLUS "~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/plus/"
sysdir set PERSONAL "~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/personal/"

set memory 32m


When I type sysdir, I get:

. sysdir
   STATA:  /Applications/DanielApps/Stata/
 UPDATES:  /Applications/DanielApps/Stata/ado/updates/
    BASE:  /Applications/DanielApps/Stata/ado/base/
    SITE:  /Applications/DanielApps/Stata/ado/site/
    PLUS:  ~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/plus/
PERSONAL:  ~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/personal/
OLDPLACE:  ~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/

Hope this helps...

Daniel

Am 22.07.2008 um 21:22 schrieb Nirali Shah:


> Hi,
> I am using Stata 9 with my new Mac.  I want to permanently change
> where new .ado files are downloaded and stored, and to have a
> profile.do start each time I start Stata.
>
> Currently, when I type -sysdir-, I see:
> STATA:  /Applications/Stata/
> UPDATES:  /Applications/Stata/ado/updates/
>   BASE:  /Applications/Stata/ado/base/
>   SITE:  /Applications/Stata/ado/site/
>   PLUS:  ~/ado/plus/
> PERSONAL:  ~/ado/personal/
> OLDPLACE:  ~/ado/
>
> I can change the paths for PLUS and PERSONAL using:
> sysdir set PLUS "/Applications/Stata/ado/plus/" and
> sysdir set PERSONAL "/Applications/Stata/ado/personal/", but when I
> restart Stata, these directories revert to that above.  How do I
> make my directory change permanent?
>
> In a related question, I thought I could create a do file which
> would run automatically when I start Stata.  I saved it in "/Library/
> Application Support/Stata", but this does not seem to work either.
>
> Any assistance for a new Mac and statalist user is appreciated.
> Nirali
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