st: running StataSE 8.2 with ESS

[Tak Wing Chan <tw.chan@sociology.oxford.ac.uk>]

Hello

I just upgraded from Stata 7 to Stata 8, and changed platform from 
Linux to Mac OSX as well.

I have been running Stata 7 from within Emacs using Emacs Speaks 
Statistics, and would like to do the same with Stata 8. I have X11 
(running full screen mode), Emacs, ESS, etc set up on my Mac. Since 
Stata 8 now lives in the /Applications Folder of Mac, I have built a 
symbolic link from /usr/bin to Stata as follows:

ln -s /Applications/Stata/StataSE.app/Contents/MacOS/StataSE stata

This doesn't work, unfortunately. When I invoke Stata from within emacs 
(by typing M-x stata) my emacs seems to freeze over, and when I switch 
back to Aqua, there is a message which says "Stata Application is 
Corrupt! Reinstall Application!", although when I then go to the Stata 
Data Folder and invoke Stata there, Stata still seems to be working.

Has anyone got any experience with this problem? Would be grateful for 
any suggestion?

Many thanks.

Wing



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