[TxMt] Bundle for Stata

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Since the stata bundle,  to run selections of text , uses  a temp do  
file (that it places in the project directory by the current  
formulation, if the working directory in stata is not the TM  project  
directory, it cannot find the file and does  not run (unless I  
manually do a "cd TO THE  TM_PROJECT FILE" manually within stata).    
This must be simple to crudely automate -  I wanted to further   
modify  Tim's  trigger  applescript that is running this temp.do  
file  by  prefixing it with the $TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY  (but I am not  
sure how environment variables &  files are concatenated in the  
applescript world?) as in


query=${TM_SELECTED_TEXT:-$TM_CURRENT_LINE}
echo "$query" > textmatetostata.do

osascript -e "tell application \"Stata\"
activate
open POSIX file   {$TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY} & \"textmatetostata.do\"
end tell"

Otherwise, I would appreciate any other  elegant solution. (I should  
note that within stata the working directory is set  by the menu  
dialogue  item  triggered by  shift-apple-j in case one would take  
that route).

thanks in advance

danstan


On Sep 1, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Timothy Beatty wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback,
>
> Danstan,
>
> The only way I've been able to figure out to run selections is to save
> the selection to a temporary file and run the temporary file.  Alan
> suggested saving the file in /temp/somthing.do, rather than in the
> current working directory.  I think that makes sense and will give it
> a bid.  I looked at the R bundle's implementation of running a
> selection, and as best I could tell (not very well, granted) it relies
> on some AppleScript that Stata doesn't recognize.  Simply stealing the
> R implementation was my first instinct, but I couldn't get it to work
> (which doesn't mean, it can't work, just that I couldn't get it to
> work).
>
> Alan,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, I think I'll probably use both of them,
>
> Tim
>
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