ssc install

[Constanze Losert]

Hello everyone,

I want to import several excel sheets (one sheet per firm per year for 6 years for all firms of S&P 1500) with the multiimport option. Therefore I need to install mulitimport by: ssc install multimport
The command does not work and this is what comes up:

. ssc install multimport
connection timed out
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/m/ 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).
r(2);

end of do-file

The "ssc install" is not working no matter what I type in after.
What do I need to do to make the ssc install command working?

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Constanze Losert

[Jen Ward]

Have you tried -help multimport- and download from the result entry?

[Nick Cox]

SSC appears to be up at the moment. Whenever I have heard of this problem arising otherwise, the problem has usually been at the user's end. You may find that

help netio

is relevant. The following sometimes need setting.

Turn on or off the use of a proxy server

        set httpproxy {on|off} [, init]


    Set proxy host name

        set httpproxyhost ["]name["]


    Set the proxy port number

        set httpproxyport #