Package installed but still unrecognized

[Anne McKay]

Hello! I am utilizing a virtual server version of Stata, and I am trying to install a package (geonear). Since I don't have permission to write to the server, I have tried to set the ado path to my local computer, successfully installed the package, and added the local path to adopath. But when I go to run the command, I am still being told the command is unrecognized.

. net set ado "\\Client\C$\Users\blah blah blah"

. ssc install geonear
checking geonear consistency and verifying not already installed...
all files already exist and are up to date.

. adopath + "\\Client\C$\Users\blah blah blah"
[1] (BASE) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata15\ado\base/"
[2] (SITE) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Stata15\ado\site/"
[3] "."
[4] (PERSONAL) "c:\ado\personal/"
[5] (PLUS) "c:\ado\plus/"
[6] (OLDPLACE) "c:\ado/"
[7] "\Client\C$\Users\blah blah blah"

. which geonear
command geonear not found as either built-in or ado-file
r(111);

Any advice?

[Richard Williams]

You might need to set a few more paths. Here is what I recommend to people with similar problems at Notre Dame. For example, the classroom computers do not have all my programs, nor am I able to install them without a few changes, so I do this:

https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/statsi...a/ndstata.html

[Nick Cox]

geonear is two files only so

ssc copy geonear.ado
ssc copy geonear.hlp

will copy to the current directory (which clearly should be one in which you have write permission).