[Nick Cox]

Weiwen Ng has already answered that. They should explain to you what drives (devices) you can and cannot use with Stata to install additional programs. (The worst answer may be none at all, if you are behind a firewall.)

[marwan Alssadek]

Meaning that, the problem is out of my hand

[Nick Cox]

I didn't say that. You need to ask them and find out what your possibilities are.

[Weiwen Ng]

Many thanks.....So, what IT department is supposed to do ?

To make this as clear as possible, I said:

You need to get write access to the Stata directory. Your department's IT people need to give you access. If they are not willing to let you access C:\ado\plus and its sub-directories, they may be willing to let you access a network drive. Alternatively, I imagine you can bring in a flash drive, copy the files there, then plug it in and tell Stata to reset the system directory to the external drive. You will be able to see the drive letter in Windows Explorer.

The simpler version of that is: Ask your IT department how you can install a user-written package on the computer. If they don't understand the issue, point them to this thread.

I am neither able nor willing to help further. Forgive me if this is the wrong impression, but it sounds like you are taking your frustration out on the posters here. You are trying to install a Stata package on a computer with restricted write access. We have tried to help you. Right now, the only people who can help are your IT department.

[Emrah Eray Akca]

Hello, stata community, I have panel data of 19 industrialized economies and 24 years, could you please suggest the most fitted estimator for this sample? Thanks a lot.

[Nick Cox]

#20 has no relation to this thread. Please start a new thread with an appropriate title. However, the question is likely too broad to get a detailed reply.

[Jerry Guan]

Even though this might be outdated, I think my solution might be helpful to whoever runs into a similar problem. I ran into the same problem, and by "RUN STATA AS ADMINISTRATOR"， then run "ssc install..." solved the problem.