Re: st: Setting up a web site to allow downloads from within Stata

[Mark Lunt <Mark.Lunt@manchester.ac.uk>]

Verkuilen, Jay wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm in the process of setting up a good, i.e., not run on uni servers
> and coded by an amateur like me :), web page for classes and want to
> allow students to get Stata files for homework from the web. 
> I've been reading the documentation and see that you have to put a file
> stata.toc in the directory with the Stata files. Anyone have an example
> stata.toc I can see? 
>   
I've put all my course materials for an "Introduction to Statistical 
Modelling with Stata" course on the web. You don't strictly need a 
stata.toc file in that context, although it may be useful. There are a 
couple of ways people can get at my stuff:

In stata, type

net from http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/mark.lunt

then click on the blue "stats"
Each session is set up as a package, and can be installed from within 
stata by clicking on the blue "click here to get" (all of the files are 
"ancillary files" since none of them are ado-files and should not be 
kept in the ado-file directory.

Alternatively, you can point a browser at 
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/mark.lunt/stats_course.html, 
and get the files in the browser from there. For the handouts, that is 
(in my opinion) the easiest way to do it. For the datasets, its possible 
to get them that way, but far easier is to type

use http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/mark.lunt/stats/filename

in stata (the exact location of the relevant dataset needs to be given 
in the handout).

Anyway, you should be able to read the contents of my .toc and .pkg 
files if you wish to take that approach, and see the source for 
stats_course.html if you want to do it that way.

Hope that's some help

Mark


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