Probably RepEc can provide the bundle as a zipped files, for instance all the relevant files of a particular routine-.hlp, ado, .do and data can be commprssed into a single file which the users can save and the unzip them in the ado path directories. This can potentially maximise the use of RepEc's excellent software archive.
Best,
Jeffry
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu on behalf of Mark Schaffer
Sent: Fri 28-May-04 5:52 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Cc:
Subject: RE: FW: st: unable to install patches
John,
From: "Moran, John (NWAHS)" <John.Moran@nwahs.sa.gov.au>
To: "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Subject: RE: FW: st: unable to install patches
Date sent: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:28:00 +0930
Send reply to: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> I am interested in the inability to execute the "right-click-and-save-as"
> option; as from my previous post, that is what I have to do all the time due
> to the #$%^*&#@ firewall.
>
> I am using bog-standard Internet Explorer (V6) without any problems with
> the "right-click-and-save-as" option. Is this a function of browsers or
> what?
This is at least partly a RePEc and not an IE6 issue. I also use IE6
and the "right-click-and-save-as" option works in most circumstances,
but not from the RePEc download pages. To download from RePEc you
tick the file you want and then click the "download" button - the
right-click option doesn't work. If the file is a .hlp file, IE6
will ask whether to save or open, but if it's an .ado, it recognises
that the file is text and opens it in the browser window.
From this narrow perspective, it would be nice if the RePEc pages
were set up more conventionally, with right-clickable links.
Meanwhile, does anybody out there know how to force IE6 to not treat
a file ending in .ado as text?
--Mark
>
> John L Moran
>
>
> Department of Intensive Care Medicine
> The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
> 28 Woodville Road, Woodville
> South Australia 5011
> Australia
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Schaffer [mailto:M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, 28 May 2004 2:56 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: FW: st: unable to install patches
>
> Jeffry,
>
> Subject: FW: st: unable to install patches
> Date sent: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:49:18 -0500
> From: "Jacob, Jeffry Ankur" <jajacob@mail.smu.edu>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Send reply to: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> > I think this did not go through earlier
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jacob, Jeffry Ankur
> > Sent: Thu 27-May-04 11:30 AM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Cc:
> > Subject: RE: st: unable to install patches
> >
> >
> > Hi Mark,
> > I have tried that also. The problem with this route is that if I
> > download a .hlp file, it gives the save option. However, if I click
> > download by selecting, say, xtabond2.ado, it directly opens this file
> > in the browser. Then I am forced to save it, open it again with
> > notepad and do the save as procedure.
>
> Good point - my browser behaves the same way. Unfortunately, there's
> no hyperlink at RePEc that allows a "right-click-and-save-as" option.
>
> Anybody out there have any suggestions on how to download from RePEc
> without having the files open in the browser?
>
> --Mark
>
> > I am still at a loss. Also, the comp I am using has StataSE, which
> was purchased just a couple of weeks ago.
> > Thanks again,
> > Jeffry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu on behalf of Mark
> Schaffer
> > Sent: Thu 27-May-04 11:01 AM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Cc:
> > Subject: RE: st: unable to install patches
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeffry,
> >
> > Subject: RE: st: unable to install patches
> > Date sent: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:41:47 -0500
> > From: "Jacob, Jeffry Ankur"
> <jajacob@mail.smu.edu>
> > To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> > Send reply to: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >
> > > Thanks for all the responses.
> > > I tried doing several things. I put the files in sysdir
> path the sysdir path and adopath.
> > > I copied all the files using the browser and then used
> notepad to save them with the relevant extensions (choosing the all files
> options).
> > > Finally I created a package file and a toc file with the
> relevant infromation and tried to install them through the help menu (user
> written software...). This way, I get a message that the software has been
> installed but when I run the commands, I get the following error messages
> > > 1. with ivreg2
> > > gt;1 invalid name
> > >
> > > 2. with xtabond2 and outreg
> > > unrecognized command: merge
> > > r(199);
> > > I will really appreciate any further suggestions on how to
> fix this problem.
> >
> > I recommend trying a direct download from RePEc, e.g., for
> ivreg2:
> >
> > http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s425401.html
> >
> > and use the download buttons. I have a feeling it might be
> the pass
> > through the browser and notepad that is messing up the
> contents of
> > the files.
> >
> > --Mark
> >
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Jeffry Jacob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu on behalf
> of Neil Shephard
> > > Sent: Thu 27-May-04 4:42 AM
> > > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > > Cc:
> > > Subject: Re: st: unable to install patches
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I am unable to access the internet through STATA
> because of firewall
> > > > ( the settings can not be altered). I downloaded
> ivreg2.ado in the
> > > > C:\ado folder (which is in adopath) and manually
> saved it as an .ado
> > > > file using notepad. However when I try to call it,
> I get an error
> > > > message "unrecognozed command". I am having the
> same difficulty with
> > > > outreg and xtabond2. Can anyone please tell me how
> I can install these
> > > > and other user written codes without having to
> type . ssc install
> > > > ivreg2 in STATA. Thanks in advance, Jeffry Jacob
> > > >
> > > Whilst c:\ado\ is indeed an ado path it has several
> subdirectories which is where Stata
> > > looks for the Do-files. and I think it is within
> hone of these that you want to place the
> > > relevant files.
> > >
> > > The package ivreg2 is an 'offical' do file from the
> Stata Journal (3-1), so you shold
> > > probably place the files in....
> > >
> > > c:\ado\stbplus\i\
> > >
> > > Alternatively you could place the files anywhere you
> want on your computer and add the
> > > directory to your system dir (see -man sysdir- for
> more information)
> > >
> > > Hope that helps
> > >
> > > Neil
> > > Neil Shephard
> > > Genetics Statistician
> > > ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester
> > > neil.shephard@man.ac.uk
> > > neil.shephard@mindless.com
> > >
> > > "Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it
> > > were so it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.
> That's
> > > logic" - Tweedledee (Alice Through the Looking
> Glass)
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> Prof. Mark E. Schaffer
> Director
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> Department of Economics
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> Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS UK
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Department of Economics
School of Management & Languages
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS UK
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