Stata tip 147: Porting downloaded packages between machines

Abstract

Stata, like R and Genstat, is a statistical language with potentially as many dialects as users. These dialects are defined by the optional packages that each user has downloaded; the number may be hundreds for a high-power user. This is a major advantage of a statistical language (such as Stata) over a statistical package (such as SPSS). And Stata users would like to continue to have that advantage on web-disabled machines.