Title

install_openirt -- Install Tristan Zajonc's -openirt- program

Syntax

install_openirt

Description

Install Tristan Zajonc's program openirt from inside Stata.
The default installation mistakenly places the
ancillary files in Stata's PLUS directory structure, which the user
should never touch. This program install_openirt first checks to see if openirt has
already been installed. If not, it installs it. Then this program
copies all of the mistakenly placed ancillary files into the user's
current working directory.

This program is useful even if you have already installed openirt,
because it will fetch the ancillary files and drop them in your current working directory.

Requires Stata Version 11.1 or later

Example

Navigate within Stata to a directory which you would like to use to try out the
openirt program. Then at Stata's command prompt, type:

. install_openirt

This utility will install openirt among your user-written programs
in your PLUS directory. It then copies into your current working
directory all the ancillary files you need to try out openirt
on the data provided by Tristan Zanonc. At the Stata prompt, type:

. openirt_examples_update

This example DO file is an edited version of the DO file "openirt_examples.do"
which Zajonc distributes with his program. The only edits I have made are
to comment out a call to the former location for Zanonc's files (which is
obsolete and would crash the DO file), to seek the example data files in the
current working directory (where the user can open or change them at will)
and to provide Stata names for the created graphs (so that they can
be browsed after program execution).

As the last command in this DO file,
I've also added a call to my utility displaygrph.
It is a utility to display all
the named graphs you have created. It's not necessary to run openirt.
If you'd like to try it out, you can install it from CGD's web site.

Authors

The program openirt is by Tristan Zajonc and available from his web site.
If you encounter problems with the program, please contact him directly.

This small utility to install his program, install_openirt, is written by
Mead Over, Center for Global Development.
If this installation program does not work, please contact him.