Katie Vigilante ([email protected]) reported difficulty updating Stata
on her university's server:
> my students are using stata 10.0; we are launching stata through the
> university server. unfortunately, many of the students are having
> trouble using the histogram command through the graphics pull down
> menu; it works fine on my desktop with a hard version of stata
> installed.
>
> They continue to get an awkward result....the instruction I founf for
> this sort of issue were "update swap" but when I have them try this,
> the result is that the program fails to engage because it is being
> used by another user. I shut down the system and started over to no
> avail.
I suspect that the issue may be due to an incomplete update as Nick Cox
pointed out.
I have contacted Professor Vigilante privately to get more details of the
exact error so that technical services can resolve this issue.
-- Kerry Kammire, StataCorp
[email protected]
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