Installation

I've given up on installation methods other than zip archive, but the instructions here still cover 2 installation locations:

• local
• vinci

The paths described below are my recommendations, for the most part. Other arrangements could work.

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1. Set up the text file profile.do (For Stata's description of this file, see help profile)

This will tell Stata where to find the installed commands.

1. Location for profile.do
   • For local, I recommend saving the file in your home directory, usually C:\users\vhaXXXyyy. You can identify it exactly (on Windows) with the Stata command display " `:environment USERPROFILE' "
   • For vinci, you MUST (as of the moment I'm writing this) save the file in the directory that shows up in the Do-File Editor 'save as' dialog as Desktop\Libraries\Documents
2. Contents of profile.do

   Location	Command
   local	adopath +  "C:\users\vhaXXXyyy\ado\lowyseattle\"
   vinci	adopath +  "P:\project dir\ado\lowyseattle\"
   Either	elfs startup

   elfs startup is not strictly required, but it is a prerequisite for some other stuff. If you include it, it must come after adopath

2. Install the commands

   Download the archive lowyseattle.zip, and expand it as the \lowyseattle\ directory you referenced in the adopath command, above.

3. Run profile.do

   It may be best to quit and re-launch Stata, since that will also make sure that profile.do is running at startup, like it's supposed to, but you can also do or run it, however you like.

If it does not run at launch on vinci contact their help desk. Theoretically, they will fix it.

4. Browse!

   lowy contents will bring up an overall contents/index for everything that was installed.