Brian Quistorff

Note about non-admin installation

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The documentation on installing Stata automation requires administrative privileges. If users do not have admin rights on a system (common on a server), then I've written up alternate installation instructions...

Printing

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In the Chrome app, printing from the right-click context menu doesn't display well (seems to show a mostly blank title page and then just one page of content). I using...

`github` doesn't add itself to the package list

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I did a fresh install of `github` and used it to install `rcall`. During the installation process its `dependency.do` queried for the `github` version, which isn't in the dataset, giving...

Option to delete extracted folder after install

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Using `github` to install a particular version of a package, e.g. `rcall`, (on Windows, Stata 15) leaves behind an `rcall-X.X.X` folder extracted from the `zip` file. It would be good...

`parallel initialize` instead of `setclusters` and changed "cluster"->"child process".

The installed package should include most of our tests so that users can self-verify if their installation works.

We might want to query how much RAM is left on the machine before we launch new instances. There is `memory`, but I'm not sure if that reports exactly what...

Sometimes just one cluster fails. It would be nice if we could just re-try that computation.

Use Stream RNGs in Stata 15

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We should use [Stream RNGs](http://www.stata.com/new-in-stata/stream-random-number-generator/) in Stata15.