Installing epctile

[Lara Guedes]

Hi folks.

How can I install epctile?

I am a newbie in stata, and I tried: 1) download the 3 txt files from the 3 websites (here mentioned: https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...do-for-epctile) - 2 ados and 1 other. Then, placed them in my PLUS. But then what? How can I download in .ado and not txt?

Sorry for the basic question.

[David Radwin]

It doesn't matter how you download them, but if you are using a Windows computer, just rename the first two files to end in the .ado and .sthlp extensions, respectively. The third file is unrelated to epctile.

Place the files in \ado\PLUS\e .

Note: epctile was written by Stas Kolenikov.

[Lara Guedes]

Hi David.

Thanks for the quick reply. So, I did what you said, and now I have the two txt files renamed as .ado and .sthlp. What should I do now?

[David Radwin]

Copy both files to the folder that ends in \ado\PLUS\e . To find that folder, type either

sysdir

or

display "`c(sysdir_plus)'"

On my computer, for example, it is in

. display "`c(sysdir_plus)'"
C:\Users\dradw\ado\plus/

[Lara Guedes]

I can do that, but then when I use epctile it answers "command epctile is unrecognized" and before that " do "C:\Users\laram\AppData\Local\Temp\STD4158_000000. tmp"

[David Radwin]

I'm not sure what's going on. If you type the following command, do you see the two files shown below in boldface?

. dir "`c(sysdir_plus)'\e\"
  <dir>   4/11/23 11:26  .                 
  <dir>   4/11/23 11:07  ..                
  25.6k   9/16/22 11:50  ebalance.ado      
  17.1k   9/16/22 11:50  ebalance.sthlp    
  11.0k   4/11/23 11:02  epctile.ado       
   3.5k   4/11/23 11:02  epctile.sthlp 

[Lara Guedes]

In mine:

. dir "`c(sysdir_plus)'\e\
<dir> 4/12/23 16:31 .
<dir> 4/14/23 16:54 ..
4.0k 4/12/23 16:31 estvar1forsomersd.mata

[Chen Samulsion]

copy https://staskolenikov.net/stata/epctile.ado epctile.ado
copy https://staskolenikov.net/stata/epctile.sthlp epctile.sthlp
copy https://staskolenikov.net/stata/FormXLevels.ado FormXLevels.ado

pwd
help epctile