I have had the same problem with lab computers. I have been unable to
convince our IT people to create a common disk location that they can
assign to Stata user-written programs that has read and write
privileges.
In the short run I have had the students write all such software to a
flash drive and this has worked pretty well. I have a slightly buggy
handout at http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/alan/Stata-Installing Useful
User-Written Programs-1.pdf that describes the details that you may
find useful.
Best,
Alan
On Jan 4, 2008 4:08 PM, Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 03:19 PM 1/4/2008, Verkuilen, Jay wrote:
> >Stata's facility at extension by users is a great asset and your
> >program is very nice. However, it's tough for my students---who are
> >using a network install and who therefore lack permissions to
> >install components from ssc or elsewhere easily---to get at it so I
> >don't tend to push the add-ons too much.
>
> We have the same problem here. You can try to install stuff, and
> either you can't do it or it disappears within 24 hours. Here is the
> workaround I suggest for my students. It may or may not be adaptable
> for your purposes:
>
> http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/statsinfo/ndstata/ndstata.html
>
> The bigger problem at Notre Dame is that you are at the mercy of the
> system administrators to install the Stata patches. They don't even
> necessarily know that there is such a thing as the -update- command;
> and if they do know they aren't going to run it more than once a
> semester. I suppose that is understandable when you have hundreds of
> machines to maintain, but it isn't optimal from my standpoint. I
> encourage my students to buy their own personal copies of Stata.
>
>
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