Xblc package

[olivier dejardin]

Dear Stata users,

For my research ,I have to install the Xblc package on my computer. Unfortunately, using the ssc install command, it's not possible to download the package (proxy settings of the hospital?).

Does anyone, have the zip files of this package ?

Many thanks,
Olivier

[William Lisowski]

Welcome to Statalist.

If the problem is indeed a proxy server, I think it is worth the effort to see if you can configure your copy of Stata to make use of the proxy server, rather than work around the problem every time you need a contributed package.

The Stata FAQ linked to below has instructions and an offer of assistance from Stata Technical Services. Also, are there other Stata users at your hospital who have overcome this problem? If so, perhaps the hospital's Information Technology support staff are familiar with the problem and can assist you.

https://www.stata.com/support/faqs/w...-proxy-server/

With that said, I believe you will be able to use your web browser to download the three components of this package if all else fails.

http://www.stata-journal.com/softwar...215_1/xblc.ado
http://www.stata-journal.com/softwar...5_1/xblc.sthlp
http://www.stata-journal.com/softwar...blc_13sep10.do

Added in edit: as a hint for others, to download this package from Stata Journal using my web browser I started by opening

https://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj11-3/st0215_1.pkg

in my web browser to see what components needed to be downloaded. The .pkg file was downloaded and I changed the extension to .txt and opened it in a text editor.

d SJ11-3 st0215_1.  Update: Tabulate and plot results after...
d Update: Tabulate and plot results after flexible modeling
d   of a quantitative covariate
d by Nicola Orsini, Karolinska Institutet, Sander Greenland, UCLA
d Support:  nicola.orsini@@ki.se
d After installation, type help ^xblc^

f st0215_1/xblc.ado
f st0215_1/xblc.sthlp
f st0215_1/examples_xblc_13sep10.do

Using that information I constructed the urls given above.

https://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj11-3/st0215_1/xblc.ado
https://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj11-3/st0215_1/xblc.sthlp
https://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj11-3/st0215_1/examples_xblc_13sep10.do

[Romano Tarsia]

Hi William Lisowski,

Thanks for your help on this post. I have xblc installed on my local STATA, but I need to install it also on my University's server version. The server version does not have an interface, but I can only upload and run DO files. I tried to run:

 net install st0215_1

Which on my local STATA works fine but on the server version I get the following error in the log file:

file http://www.stata.com/st0215_1.pkg not found
could not load st0215_1.pkg from http://www.stata.com/
r(601);

Do you have any ideas about how to solve this? I know it is a quite specific question so don't worry if you don't know.

Thank you in advance

[Romano Tarsia]

In response to my previous question, after spending different hours trying to install these packages on the server version of STATA, I have realised that the possibly most efficient way to solve this issue is to manually copy and paste the ado files from the local version. An example could be found here.