Stata Ado Files
Reusable programs for the Stata programming language are distributed as ado files.
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Installing Ado Files
SSC
Many programs have been written by Stata users and posted to the Boston College Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive. These can be installed locally with the ssc command.
ssc install fre
By default, these Ado files are installed to C:\ado\plus. To double check this, run the sysdir command. (OLDPLACE is the location used in Stata version 6 and older. PLUS has been used since.)
To install into a different location, such as PERSONAL, try:
net set ado PERSONAL ssc install fre