add new adopath permanently

[Evo Kurtz]

Dear statatlists,

this might be trivial but still cant find a good answer online. I like to keep my ado files in specific folder on the dropbox, so each time i have to specify the path with

 adopath + "..."

. Is there a simple way to add this folder as permanent system directory so i do not have to specify it each time i run stata?

Thanks for help!

[eric_a_booth]

Add it to your profile.do with a command like:

 sysdir set personal `"C:/dropbox/myado/"'

See -help profile-

[Evo Kurtz]

Great thank you Eric

[Zuhumnan Dapel]

Dear Eric,
How can I deal with this error message:

package installation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

package name: sg104.pkg
from: http://www.stata.com/stb/stb48/

checking sg104 consistency and verifying not already installed...
cannot write in directory c:\ado\plus\g

Thanks,
Dapel

[Nick Cox]

Zuhumnan Dapel. The known adopath is being used in trying to install this program. Almost certainly you don't have write permission on your C: drive. Talk to your local IT support people or change the adopath so that you are trying to install somewhere where you do.

Let's suppose that you can use an external device as F:

Then something like

sysdir set PLUS f:\ado\plus

followed by another attempt to install may work.

If this doesn't help, you have to tell where you can install files.

In this particular case, watch out:

. search sg104, entry historical

Search of official help files, FAQs, Examples, SJs, and STBs

STB-48  sg104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Analysis of income distributions
        (help sumdist, xfrac, ineqdeco, geivars if installed) .  S. P. Jenkins
        3/99    pp.4--18; STB Reprints Vol 8, pp.243--260
        various programs for summarizing distributions, and income
        distributions in particular

These are programs from 1999. I'll guess that in at least some cases Stephen Jenkins has written more up-to-date versions.

[Stephen Jenkins]

Nick is correct. Updated versions of almost all of these programs exist, and are downloadable from SSC.

[Zuhumnan Dapel]

Thank you very much. I will attempt this once I get on the PC as am currently using a different PC with no issue.