installing an ado file

[Tapas Paul]

Can anyone guide me on how to install an ado file? I'm using stata 14.2 in Mac.
Here is the file http://tabout.net.au/downloads/main_version/tabout.txt

[Clyde Schechter]

Well, you can click on that link and copy the entire file to your clipboard. Then open the Stata do-editor and paste it there. Next, run the command -adopath-. Stata will respond with a list of directories (folders) where ado files can be stored. One of them will be called (PERSONAL). Have the do-editor save the file as an .ado in that folder, assigning it the filename tabout.ado. Then you'll be good to go.

That said, there is also a tabout.ado available from SSC. I don't know if it's the same thing, but it looks like it probably is, or at least has the same basic functions. So you might want to do things the easy way instead. Just run -ssc install tabout- and Stata will do it all for you automatically.