net install lpdensity, error r(677)

[Rui Tian]

Hi,

I use rddensity in Stata and already have rddensity installed on my computer but then a error reported:

plotting feature requires command lpdensity, install with
net install lpdensity, from(https://sites.google.com/site/nppack...pdensity/stata) replace
r(111);

when I tried the above code to install this package, another error reported as:

net install lpdensity, from(https://sites.google.com/site/nppack...pdensity/stata) replace
remote connection failed -- see help r(677) for troubleshooting
https://sites.google.com/site/nppack...density/stata/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).

current site is still http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/
r(677);

I already tried to tell Stata the name and port of the "http proxy server" using set httpproxyhost, set httpproxyport and set httpproxy on however after all this the same problem still reported.

Then I go to the above link (https://sites.google.com/site/nppack...pdensity/stata) which works totally fine for me. I tried to download each of the files but then Chrome said that this site cannot be reached. I was also thinking of installing this manually however if I am not able to download all these files I do not know how to do this.

I am not sure if anything wrong with the settings of my computer...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Rui Tian]

Also,

ssc install does not work either...

findit partially works for some packages, i.e. logistic, but not works for winsor2

ssc install winsor2
connection timed out -- see help r(2) for troubleshooting
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/w/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).

current site is still https://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj18-1/
r(2);

[Rui Tian]

Problem fixed!
This is what I did (no sure which step(s) helped)

I restarted computer and opened Stata again.
As I am using VPN so I changed the port number to the one provided by this VPN (I actually tried this several times before restarting my computer but it never worked. I also tried not to start VPN and use the port number and proxy that I could check in my Internet setting but it did not work either).