My students are using Stata this semester, and I want them to be able to
use various user-written programs. Apparently, however, they could install
stuff on cluster machines, but it would be gone the next day. The network
administrator is willing to install some stuff permanently, but I don't
want to be harassing him every week as I figure out what I want!
Students do, however, have networked drives they have regular read/write
access to (on our system, the H: drive).
I was therefore thinking I could have them type in something like
sysdir set PLUS h:\ado
That would install programs to h:\ado, right? But then they wouldn't have
access to whatever is on the local c:\ado?
Perhaps I could create an ado file with the above command and a few others,
and ask our network administrator to install it on every machine, and then
students would just type something like -soc593- and be all set?
Any tips on how to do this as painlessly as possible? Thanks.
