Re: st: do file script from text wrangler

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On May 22, 2011, at 8:58 PM, Eric Green wrote:
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-10/msg00118.html
>
> I am using TextMate on my mac, and I have the same problem with  
> local macros described in this thread because of the temporary file  
> issue. In my TextMate Stata bundle (i.e., program settings), I set  
> the temp file to be created in /Code/Stata. So every time I send a  
> selection of code to Stata, the command in Stata is preceded by:
>
> . do "/Code/Stata/textmatetostata.do"
>
> In my do files, I always specify the location of my data as follows:
>
> global rawdata "/Code/Stata/Projects/[insert project name]/Data/Raw/"
> global cleandata "/Code/Stata/Projects/[insert project name]/Data/ 
> Clean"



My suggestion would be to avoid using absolute paths, since then your  
project is not portable.  Instead, replace the paths above with

    Data/Raw
    Data/Clean

and then set your working directory to

    /Code/Stata/Projects/[insert project name]

This way, you can easily move your project to another location,  
another machine, etc.

WRT TextMate, below my signature is a command you can use to send the  
current line/selection to Stata (in TM, set Input to "None", Output to  
"Discard" and Save to "Nothing").  As you can see, it attempts to  
create the temporary file first in the project directory (if you have  
a TextMate project open), then in the same location as the do-file  
you're editing, and finally (if you haven't saved your do-file yet) on  
your Desktop (you can change this last location if you want).   
Personally, I usually have my working directory (in Stata) set to the  
root of my project, and then have this open in TextMate as a TM  
project.  I also write all of my do-file code with the assumption that  
the working directory is the root of the project -- this way, I never  
have to change directories, and I always know where I am.


-- Phil

if [ -n "$TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY" ]
then
    STATA_DIR="$TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY"
elif [ -n "$TM_DIRECTORY" ]
then
    STATA_DIR="$TM_DIRECTORY"
else
    STATA_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
fi

TMPFILE="$STATA_DIR/.tm-stata-$$.do"
if [ ! -e "$TMPFILE" ]
then
    if [[ -n "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" ]]
        then echo "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" > "$TMPFILE"
        else echo "$TM_CURRENT_LINE" > "$TMPFILE"
    fi
    osascript <<-APPLESCRIPT
        tell application id "com.stata.stata11" to open POSIX file "$ 
{TMPFILE}"
        delay 0.5  -- avoid deleting file before Stata reads it
        do shell script "rm \"${TMPFILE}\""
    APPLESCRIPT
else
    echo "Can't create temporary file $TMPFILE (already exists)"
fi

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