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| From | A Loumiotis <antonis.loumiotis@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0 |
| Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:45:07 +0200 |
It is not currently possible to install fastcd from ssc because the ado file is missing. Only the help file is available and can be installed. Antonis On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Oliver Jones > <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: >> Assuming you just want to start an interactive session and you don't work >> from a command line and open a Stata Window, then it is inconvenient to type >> use C:"very long path"/mydata >> In this case just double clicking the mydata.dta is a lot more convenient! >> > > You could ease this process by installing and using -fastcd- so that > you have a set of what are essentially macros for the "very long path" > that you can call to change directory. > > Once in that "working" directory you will likely have sub-directories > for 'data', 'scripts' and so forth and its then a case of... > > use "data/mydata", clear > > Check out -fastcd- from ssc and install with.... > > ssc desc fastcd > ssc install fastcd > > Its a great little utility from Nick Winter. > > Neil > > > -- > “Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited > to open the way to the next better one.” - Konrad Lorenz > > Email - nshephard@gmail.com > Website - http://kimura.no-ip.org/ > Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/ > > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/