Installing User Written Packaged With Net

[Jared Greathouse]

When I try to install my user written fdid like this

net install fdid, all from("https://github.com/jgreathouse9/jgreathouse9.github.io/tree/master/stata/fdid")

Stata tells me there's nothing to install. Why? I have the .toc file, I have the .pkg, sthlp, and ado file. What more would I need for Stata to recognize this as legitimate? You can see the files for yourselves on github here.


EDIT: I GUESS as a workaround users could just do

copy "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jgreathouse9/jgreathouse9.github.io/master/stata/fdid/fdid.ado" "C:\ado\plus\f\fdid.ado", replace
copy "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jgreathouse9/jgreathouse9.github.io/master/stata/fdid/fdid.sthlp" "C:\ado\plus\f\fdid.sthlp", replace

By using whatever their path for ado files is.... but that's kind of silly, I would hope users could use the net command.

[daniel klein]

Read the full pdf documentation of net, especially the section entitled "Creating your own site". It's all documented. In a nutshell: you need two more files, one stata.toc file and one .pkg-file.

Look at my Git repository for trackobs for what I think is the minimal setup.


Edit: I just looked up your site and you already have those two files. The version is wrong in both, though. You should not freely choose a version number or format for those files. These files' versions also have nothing to do with your software, The versions must be what is documented in net, which is v 3 (sic) as of this writing, and it tells net how to interpret stata.toc and teh pkg-file. I believe the distribution date should not include any dashes; better to mimc the style on SSC, which is YYYYMMDD. Also, you need to to direct net to the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/.

Hope that helps.

[Jared Greathouse]

Okay. I'll edit that then!