worldbank/ietoolkit

`ieboilstart , adopath()`: document that schemes also needs to go in ado-folder

bbdaniels opened this issue · 5 comments

bbdaniels commented

Trying to use adopath option to manage ado folder causes schemes to fail, even when explicitly set.

global dir "/Users/bbdaniels/GitHub/covet-tb-india"
ieboilstart, v(16.1) adopath("${dir}/ado" , strict)

// Install ado-files

  ssc install iefieldkit

  net from https://github.com/bbdaniels/stata/raw/main/
    net install labelcollapse

// Graph scheming

  copy "https://github.com/graykimbrough/uncluttered-stata-graphs/raw/master/schemes/scheme-uncluttered.scheme" ///
    "${dir}/scheme-uncluttered.scheme" , replace

  sysdir set PERSONAL "${dir}/"
  set scheme uncluttered , perm

Results in:

.   set scheme uncluttered , perm
scheme uncluttered not found
r(111);

and:

.   tw ///
>   (lowess correct pre_correct) ///
>   (lowess checklist pre_correct) ///
>   (lowess correct pre_correct) ///
> 
(note: scheme uncluttered not found, using s2color)

The instructions for installing schemes specifically ask that Stata is restarted once the scheme is placed in PERSONAL, so ieboilstart seems to be overriding that somehow. The scheme works again immediately upon restart as long as ieboilstart is not run.

kbjarkefur commented

what happens if you copy it into "${dir}/ado"?

bbdaniels commented

That works! Good to know -- not a bug then, but it does break some existing external functionality. Probably worth noting in wiki, but doesn't require changes to code I think. Feel free to close if you are happy with that.

kbjarkefur commented

Great, I had not thought of this and was not sure it would work. Yeah, definitely needs to be documented, but it seems as if that should be enough.

kbjarkefur commented

@bbdaniels , I created this article for this case: https://github.com/dime-worldbank/repkit/blob/repado-schemes/src/vignettes/schemes-with-repado.md

Can you please read and let me know if you agree that this is the documentation required? I do not work much with schemes so your eyes would be helpful. Feel free to make edits directly to that branch.

The instructions for installing schemes specifically ask that Stata is restarted once the scheme is placed in PERSONAL [...]

Do you have a link to those installation instructions? If so, could you please add it to the article where I mention that this is the recommended practice?

When you are done, just go ahead and merge the PR worldbank/repkit#7