Thanks a lot to all who replied. The fastcd package is a very nice
utility! I added it to my list of favourite commands.
For my current project I will try the solution with a profile.do in my
personal ado-directory, as Jean, Michael and Christian suggested.
Best,
Eva
Nick Winter wrote on 22.03.2005 15:44:
> My fastcd package (available from SSC) might help out here. It includes
> a program called "c", that lets you define a series of shortcut names
> and associated directories, and then change to the associated directory
> by invoking the shortcut.
>
> In my .do files, I often begin with a command like
>
> . c apsa05
>
> which changes to the directory for the "apsa05" project. The nice thing
> is that if the apsa05 project is moved at a later date, all I need to do
> is update the database of shortcuts, and the .do file will still work
> appropriately.
>
> --Nick Winter
>
>
> At 01:37 PM 3/22/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Dear statalisters!
>>
>> I have a question on how to organise my Stata files in such a way that I
>> can change the directory structure, or copy everything to a new place,
>> while double-clicking a do-file to run it still works. I am under
>> Windows XP, Stata 8.2.
>>
>> Suppose a do-file in directory project dir\analysis\analysis1 contains
>> the lines
>>
>> capture log close
>> log using "D:\project dir\analysis\analysis1\analysis1X.log", replace
>> use "D:\project dir\data\data3\somedata.dta"
>>
>> Now I want to be as flexible as possible and avoid absolute path names
>> at all. Since I have so many do-files (around 70), I am looking for a
>> solution where the path info is stored only in one place, and I use
>> references to this in my do-files, so that the above becomes
>>
>> log using "<analysis path>\analysis1\analysis1X.log", replace
>> use "<data path>\data3\somedata.dta"
>>
>> Preferably, the path info is stored somewhere in the project directory
>> itself, under the top level directory. If I decided to have "project
>> dir\old version\data\..." in a few months, I'd just have to change
>> "project dir\pathinfo" to adjust the paths.
>>
>> I know about global variables, but my problem is that I don't know how
>> to define them from within the project directory, such that
>> double-clicking a do-file works.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Eva Poen
>>
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