Interactive filename picker for Stata.
This filename picker could be improved if it were converted to a package. Seeking collaborators on that conversion project.
From command line or other do files available at:
do https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adamrossnelson/sshnd/master/sshnd.do
Gathers input from the user. Prompts user to specify a log file location. Input from user establishes a naming convention. From that convention sshnd creates three global variables that can be used to save files matching that naming convention. dtagbl will contain path and filename for a .dta file. loggbl will contain a path and filename for a .log file. wkdgbl will contain a path that may serve as a workspace directory to be used for storage of temporary files.
After creating the dtagbl loggbl and wkdgbl, sshnd changes the working directory to the path stored in wkdgble.
sshnd results are logged in the log file specified by loggbl which may be appended by subsequent do files.
This routine works well at the beginning of do files which are intended to execute standardized/routine procudures but by multiple users with different file systems. For example the StataIPEDSAll quickly collects data from online and then compiles panel data sets.
Note: Example below references desktop location hwever, user(s) need not specify Desktop location.
Example of do file output:
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This do file will create (replace):
Datafile: C:\Users\username\Desktop\UserInputName.dta
Logfile: C:\Users\username\Desktop\UserInputName.log
This do file will create (use):
Workspace: C:\Users\username\Desktop\testtestwksp
Dialogue window asks, Are you sure you wish to proceed?
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Now changed to new working direcotry; current working directory:
C:\Users\username\Desktop\UserInputNamewksp
Global dtagbl = C:\Users\username\Desktop\UserInputName.dta
Global loggbl = C:\Users\username\Desktop\UserInputName.log
Global wkdgbl = C:\Users\username\Desktop\UserInputNamewksp
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Copyright (c) 2018 Adam Ross Nelson JD PhD
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