Ancillary Files Stata Commands

Ancillary Files Stata Commands 8,2/10 5399reviews

Finding resources from within Stata. To install the ancillary files. You can also type search keyword from Stata's command prompt to produce the same list. My guess would be that anscillary files are copied to the current directory. Often this is the directory where Stata is installed, and this might be protected. Finding resources from within Stata. To install the ancillary files. You can also type search keyword from Stata's command prompt to produce the same list.

You have found the documentation for package files, so this seems to be a question in the first instance about whether sysuse marches with installations of user-written packages, and the short answer is an emphatic No. Radiohead Pablo Honey 1993 Rare here. Sysuse is intended as a quick-and-easy way for Stata users to access datasets made available by StataCorp to support official commands. I have not tried it, but my guess is that sysuse would work with any dataset so long as that dataset was placed in the directories searched by Stata.

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However, I would argue that would be very poor style. When Stata programmers publish a package centred on programs and their help files, they often make test datasets available, but the best standard is to mark such files as ancillary and let users download them to a location of their own choice using net get.

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As said, this is a choice. The argument can be strengthened.

It's best practice to keep StataCorp's own files and other files strictly segregated. That way, updates and upgrades, copying files to other machines, etc.

All are much less likely to get confused or tangled given some clash of names. Most likely, you might install or reinstall Stata and 'forget' that you had user-written stuff mixed in with StataCorp's own files and waste time trying to find it.

Cyberlink Softdma 2 Crack Rocks on this page. Fs9 Aerosoft Luxembourg Airports Ellxt971e. In any case, for sysuse to work like this, users would have to install files manually in the place(s) searched by Stata, as Stata's download commmands would not do that automatically. As for 'out-of-the-way', this is not for you to decide.

Many users have very strict personal or workplace rules that each project requires quite different directories or folders, so placing files only where they can be found quite deliberately is, in their own terms, a very good idea. Otherwise put, the net get mechanism implies that users decide, carefully or not, where files are to go. Users also have the scope to manipulate their adopath should they wish to supplement Stata's rules on where it searches. If a user has chosen to install a package, it is quite likely that they want as easy access to the example data that motivates the use of the new commands, as they have to the commands themselves. While I agree with your reasoning about the sysuse command, but there ought to be something like adouse for users who have elected to install packages.