Login or Register by clicking Login or Register at the top-right of this page.Auxiliary files obtained via a net get command (rather than as part of a net install command) are copied into Statas net other directory specified by net set other rather than into Statas PLUS directory.This makes sense when the auxiliary files are sample data, but not so much when theyre necessary for the functioning of the package, as they are for markstat (from SCC) and zanthro (from SJ) to name two Ive seen problems with in the last few weeks.
The default for the net other directory is the users current directory, and any setting to another directory is not retained from session to session of Stata. Heres an example using markstat installation. Im not a developer, so I cant take this any farther - Im past the limits of my knowledge here, and am only writing this because Ive seen users stumble over this twice in recent weeks. By default Stata determines where files go based on the suffix:.ado and.sthlp are considered installation files and go in the system directory, and practically everything else is considered an ancillary file, made available through a separate get, and put in the current working directory. It is possible, however, to force other files to be installed rather than treated as ancillary by designating them as F rather than f in the package file, see help usersite for more information. This is in fact the strategy I used with markstat. In 1.0 we designated markstat.css as F, and in 2.0 we extended the designation to markstat.docx and markstats5.zip, which has JavaScript and CSS files for HTML slide shows, so these files are found by findfile no matter where the command is run from. These files had the correct designation last November 14, but as you note they are now listed as ancillary at SSC. Not sure what might have happened, but will follow up with Kit Baum and report when I know more. Regarding the related zanthro discussed here, the.dta files are all designated as ancillary. Ford 6000 cd code serial vs parallelBut as Clyde Schechter noted in that thread, you can always put the files in adoplusz yourself. Ancillary Files Stata Update Dm00041 TheyI have brought these threads to the attention of the zanthro support person to see if in their case it was intentional, since in the dm0004 release the ancillary files were (and are) included in the installation, while in the update dm00041 they are not - as confirmed by looking at the.pkg file. I appreciate your further comment that the problem with markstat was due to an issue at SSC. While zanthro is distributed through SJ, and the most recent release is from 2013, I am wondering if a similar issue existsexisted there at some point. This seemed too systematic - two instances of the same issue on two different packages coming to light within a few weeks of each other. 3 idiots full movie mp4 free downloadBy the way, thanks too for the reference to help usersite - I knew Id seen a discussion of package construction, but was not able to pull up the magic search term (hint: search package is useless, as is search pkg ) from memory when I was writing last night. The growth reference.dta files are now included in the installation.
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