How to extract rar files with stata？

[Zhifan Tian]

How to extract rar files with stata？For example,I can use unzipfile to extract the zip file.What about rar fiels? Best wishes！

[Jesse Wursten]

https://www.stata.com/statalist/arch.../msg00416.html

[Zhifan Tian]

Thank you a lot,Jesse! I use this command ： !"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" financial_data.rar
to unzip the file financial_data.rar，then I should click the botton “extract” in the WinRAR,so that I can
unzip the file financial_data.rar



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[Sergiy Radyakin]

Use UnRar instead of WinRAR:
https://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
which is free and available for multiple platforms.

To extract everything the syntax is

unrar e archive.rar

and you don't need to click anything manually.

[Zhifan Tian]

Thank you so much,Sergiy~
However,the command unrar is unrecognized r(199);
Best regards!

[Nick Cox]

unrar isn't a Stata command; it is part of other software you must install.

[Zhifan Tian]

Thank you,Nick!

[Tanveer Ahmad]

How to extract rar files with stata？For example,I can use unzipfile to extract the zip file.What about rar fiels? Best wishes！

you need to use the shell command to use winrar software to unzip file. The unzipfile command is used to unzip the file saved in .zip format i.e. when you compress a file using the windows default compression software. however when you are using winrar, it will save file in .rar extention. For that use following command, just change the path and file name
shell set path=”C:\Program Files\WinRAR”; %path% & unrar e “file2.rar” details are on the following link: https://thedatahall.com/how-to-unzip-files-in-stata/