[ESS] ESS with StataMP

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 09/06/2013 07:31 AM, David R wrote:
> I mostly use R and love ESS's R support - it works great!
>
> Now I want to use Emacs for Stata.
>
> I should note that I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.4 with StataMP 13.
>
> I have tried one thing so far to try and get this working.
> Someone said that you need to add Stata to your PATH.
>
> So I added the following to my PATH:
> /Applications/Stata/StataMP.app/Contents/MacOS/.
> I can now launch Stata from my terminal by typing "StataMP".
>
> When I type "M-x stata" in Emacs, it asks for my starting directory
> Then I get the following error message:
> "Searching for program: No such file or directory, stata".
>
> Do you have any idea of how I could get this working?
>
> David
>

Hi David:

You need to alter the ESS variable inferior-STA-program-name.
Something like...
(setq inferior-STA-program-name
	"/Applications/Stata/StataMP.app/Contents/MacOS/StataMP")

But, beware.  I haven't tried Stata in any recent release of ESS.

Rodney