In Stata, you can have personal ado file that have user written programs that can be loaded at each time, Stata is started.

On the latest Stata 18, the following commends worked for me.

Start Stata and find the personal ado path

ADO Files

ADO files are custom programs that become available in Stata.

adopath
personal dir

Create one file per program.

To create the program, navigate to the personal Ado directory Path

cd "~/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/personal"                                                                                      "Code language: JavaScript (javascript)

Now create the ado files

doe ssSurvey.adoCode language: CSS (css)

In Stata 18, the path has been updated to “~/Documents/ado” but at least in my case, the old path is the now being used.

my current personal ados look like this

. personal dir
your personal ado-directory is /Users/vivekgupta/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/personal/

eq5d5l_indsco.ado               scheme-_GRSTYLE_.scheme
logisticResults.ado             ssSurvey.ado

PROFILE.DO Files

This is a DO file that gets executed every time Stata is launched. It is recommended to put profile.do in the home directory.

cd ~
doe profile.doCode language: CSS (css)