Problem installing Polychoric command for Stata IC/ 14, Mac version.

[Venkata Sankara]

Dear Boarders, I wonder if anyone here could help me with this. I have been unable to install Polychoric command package, which I need to run correlations on a set of categorical variables.. Even though findit Polychoric directs me to the package website link, on clicking to install, I get the following message screen:
package installation
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package name: polychoric.pkg
from: http://web.missouri.edu/~kolenikovs/stata/

checking polychoric consistency and verifying not already installed...
I/O error
could not copy http://web.missouri.edu/~kolenikovs/...polychoric.hlp
(no action taken)

r(691);
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The problem from this message seems to be with the one specific .hlp file. Disk space cannot be the issue (since I/O error seems to be largely attributed to lack of disk space) , as I have at least 10GB remaining in the same drive where Stata is loaded.

Is there any work around for this problem?

Thanks in advance

Venkat

[Steve Samuels]

Clicking runs the command "net install polychoric.pkg". The whole package installs fine for me, so it looks like the problem is on your end, perhaps a permissions problem.

adopath

will indicate if your /ado/plus directory is known to Stata.

On a Mac the package would install into "~/Library/Application Support/Stat/ado/plus/p".

[Venkata Sankara]

Steve, thank you. Your pointer was spot on. It was a firewall issue at my end. Once I bypassed that by using a different network, I could download the polychoric package.

Venkat