I work for a semi-large research organization. One of our staff members requested a Stata 12MP package to be built for possible deployment to up to 250 staff.
The requirements were as follows:
Semi-silent (non user-interactive) installation of Stata 12MP on both Windows XP and
Windows 7-64bit systems that may or may not have Stata 11MP installed. If Stata 11MP
is installed, remove it before installing Stata 12MP. Also, make sure autoupdate functionality
is turned off and that the company license is automatically (and silently) installed.
Here is the logic I used to build the package:
1. Check for Stata 11 executable in Windows XP - if found, remove Stata 11.
2. Check for Stata 11 executable in Windows 7 - if found, remove Stata 11.
3. Check what OS we are using. If WinXP, install Stata12MP-32bit. If Win7, install Stata12MP-64bit.
4. Check what OS we are using and copy profile.do (autoupdate disabler) to the Stata 12 Program Files folder.
5. Check what OS we are using and copy STATA.LIC (Stata 12 license file) to the Stata 12 Program Files folder.
Here is how to build the package:
1. Create a 'profile.do' (autoupdate disabler) file:
Create a new text file with notepad containing the following two lines:
set update_query off
set update_prompt off
Save file as 'profile.do'.
2. To get the 'STATA.LIC' (Stata license) file:
Install Stata 12 manually and enter your license information on first run.
Stata saves your license information in its Program Files folder, named 'STATA.LIC'.
3. Create a folder with the original installation files, plus the 'profile.do' and 'STATA.LIC' files.
4. Use the following script, created from the steps outlined above:
IF EXIST 'C:Program FilesStata11Stata*.exe' msiexec.exe /x {AE3795EC-AE7F-474E-B5A7-D693AA068039} /qb!
IF EXIST 'C:Program Files (x86)Stata11Stata*.exe' msiexec.exe /x {AE3795EC-AE7F-474E-B5A7-D693AA068039} /qb!
IF EXIST 'C:Program Files (x86)' (msiexec.exe /i Stata12MSI.msi ADDLOCAL=Ado,Core,StataMP64 /qb!) ELSE (msiexec.exe /i Stata12MSI.msi ADDLOCAL=Ado,Core,StataMP32 /qb!)
IF EXIST 'c:Program Files (x86)' (copy /y profile.do 'c:program files (x86)') ELSE (copy /y profile.do 'c:program files')
IF EXIST 'c:Program Files (x86)' (copy /y STATA.LIC 'c:program files (x86)') ELSE (copy /y STATA.LIC 'c:program files')
I saved to above script as 'install.bat' and placed that in a folder with my source files.
I then used 'IExpress' (a self extracting executable creator, built into Windows) to build the package. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IExpress)
The install command I used in IExpress was: 'cmd.exe /c install.bat'. This allows the package to run on WinXP and Win7 64bit.
The package is now ready to be deployed using KACE, Altiris, SCCM, etc...
Thank you to rock_star for the info on the 'profile.do' file.
Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. It is used by researchers in many fields, including economics, sociology, political science, biomedicine, and epidemiology. StataCorp personnel pronounce Stata / ˈsteɪtə /. Determine from the License and Activation Key whether you should install Stata/MP, Stata/SE, Stata/IC, or Small Stata. Decide where you want to install the Stata software. We recommend C: Program Files (x86) Stata13 on 64-bit Windows and C: Program Files Stata13 on 32-bit Windows. If you already have an old version of Stata on your. Stata License Key. In addition, with Stata License Key let you can use any package within it. Moreover, it is the best webpage scraping tool for statistical analysis problems. It allows us to test our data management documents or files. It permits the show analysis with real examples. No need to learn from guidelines from books. Briefly, to export a Stata matrix: change directory if necessary (example) cd 'Z: Thesis data needed for 2007 '. Set putexcel to call your Excel file: putexcel lets you specify the sheet in your Excel file that you would like to modify, which comes in handy if you have programmed an Excel sheet to transform results.
Stata 12 License File Download
- 09/14/2011
- Show Comments ( 0 )