Error message r(699)

[Li-Ling London]

Hi there,

I'm trying to install factortest and sortl. It has worked previously, but now when I search for them and try and install them this error ccomes up:

package name:  factortest.pkg
        from:  http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/f/

checking factortest consistency and verifying not already installed...
installing into c:\ado\plus\...
could not rename c:\ado\plus\next.trk to c:\ado\plus\stata.trk
could not rename c:\ado\plus\backup.trk to c:\ado\plus\stata.trk

r(699);

So I searched for r(699) and this came up:

Search of official help files, FAQs, Examples, SJs, and STBs

FAQ     . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Using the STATATMP environment variable
        . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  P. Huckelba
        12/06   Why am I getting an error message that there is
                "insufficient disk space"?
                http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/
                statatmp-environment-variable/

[P]     error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Return code 699
        insufficient disk space
        You ran out of disk space while writing a file to disk.
        The file is now closed and probably erased.  Review your
        operating system documentation to determine how to proceed.

I looked on the FAQs and found some information about temporary files: https://www.stata.com/support/faqs/d...ment-variable/

I tried this and tried to find these temporary files on my university computer but couldn't find it. How can I resolve this? I am using a remote desktop to access my university computer desktop...

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
L

[Nick Cox]

Do you even have write permission on the C: drive? Students in my University, for example, can use any of many, many networked PCs that is free, but the C: drive is off limits for writing files. You may need to adjust your adopath so that you're asking Stata to install in a suitable place.

[Li-Ling London]

Most likely not Nick, but I thought I would ask first on here. Would you be able to re-direct me to how to go about adjusting the

adopath

?

[Nick Cox]

help adopath

would be a start. You need to replace PLUS by a drive you can write to.