Locally I put extra stuff in a directory
that all student machines can "see". I have
write access to that directory (and the students
don't).
Another possibility, for SSC material, is to encourage students
to use -ssc- directly to install .ado and .hlp files
in their own filespace. Thus if they are in a
directory to which they have write access,
ssc copy foo.ado
ssc copy foo.hlp
is enough to install the simplest case of a -foo-
program and its help. Admittedly, other packages
are more complicated.
An advantage of this is that they don't depend on
anybody else to install stuff, especially if they
explore and find something useful by themselves.
However, they
have to understand that they must be in the same
directory to use that, and from various other
points of view the procedure might not be best for your
circumstances. But these are graduate students with
a number like 593, correct?
Nick
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Richard
> Williams
> Sent: 22 January 2004 19:33
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Sharing ado files on a network
>
>
> My students are using Stata this semester, and I want them to
> be able to
> use various user-written programs. Apparently, however, they
> could install
> stuff on cluster machines, but it would be gone the next day.
> The network
> administrator is willing to install some stuff permanently,
> but I don't
> want to be harassing him every week as I figure out what I want!
>
> Students do, however, have networked drives they have regular
> read/write
> access to (on our system, the H: drive).
>
> I was therefore thinking I could have them type in something like
>
> sysdir set PLUS h:\ado
>
> That would install programs to h:\ado, right? But then they
> wouldn't have
> access to whatever is on the local c:\ado?
>
> Perhaps I could create an ado file with the above command and
> a few others,
> and ask our network administrator to install it on every
> machine, and then
> students would just type something like -soc593- and be all set?
>
> Any tips on how to do this as painlessly as possible? Thanks.
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