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Re: Re: st: how to avoid absolute path names in do-files?


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: Re: st: how to avoid absolute path names in do-files?
Date   Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:27:47 -0500

I wouldn't use local macros because they would need to be repeated in every do file (that's why they're called local), making it more difficult to change. Instead, I would assign the paths to global macros in a single small do file (mydirs.do), e.g.,

global data1dir "d:/projectdir/data1"
global data2dir "d:/projectdir/data2"
...

then I would either enter the command -run mydirs- in profile.do (as long as mydirs.do is in you default Stata directory, or else use a fixed path to point to it), or start each do file in the project with the command -run mydirs-, as long as all of the do files are in the same directory as the mydirs.do.

Michael Blasnik
[email protected]

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