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RE: st: Check whether ado file is installed


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Check whether ado file is installed
Date   Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:40:57 -0000

-which- looks for commands rather than packages. On occasion that would fail whenever a package name does not correspond to a command name. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Sven-Oliver Spieß

I feel like the 'which' command could be your friend.

You could add something like this to your profile.do:
	---Beginning example---
	foreach package in pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 {
		capture which `package'
		if _rc==111 ssc install `package'
	}
	---End example---

See 'help which' and 'help profile' for more details.

Jan Sauermann wrote:
 
> 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.

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