Nick,
On Wednesday week, you provided one solution for problems with -install-
which I took you up on:
> Various people reported problems downloading stuff
> from SSC.
>
> Briefly, I can't diagnose whether the issue arises
> from local machine or software situation; or from some
> limit or bug in Stata; or from some combination.
>
> My one positive comment is to point to
>
> . ssc copy <filename>
>
> as a way of getting stuff into the current
> directory is -ssc install- is not working.
> Upstream of this you should naturally -cd-
> to the appropriate place. That's usually
> much straightforward than using a browser
> or some other more or less awkward way of
> copying.
>
> What's more, you can loop through set of files
> with -foreach-.
>
> That said, this is only a stop-gap.
Not long after, you provided me with the -foreach- loop privately.
Although the loop didn't always work in all circumstances (e.g., trying to
-ssc copy mypkg- produced an odd error saying that the package could not
be located at SSC!), I've now found the solution via Technical Support:
delete _all_ your backup.trk files. Not doing so causes a file permission
error, say TS.
Once I eventually twigged onto the fact that I actually have two of these
files, it worked a treat: I've downloaded three packages since. As not
everybody may be aware of this, do you think it may be worthwhile
reporting this to the list?
CLIVE NICHOLAS |t: 0(44)191 222 5969
Politics Building |e: [email protected]
School of Geography, |f: 0(44)870 126 2421
Politics & Sociology |
University of |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
NE1 7RU |
United Kingdom |http://www.ncl.ac.uk/geps
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
