Good to know

Thursday, 15 July 2010

The user-written commands you download to your ado/plus directory are updated once in a while on that RepEc server they come from. So, after you findit and then net install it, your imported command might need to be refreshed occasionally. That is what adoupdate, update does.

I was reminded of this when I tried to run freduse today. Actually, the problem that reminded me of it -- a "not found" error message thrown when the command invoked the Mata function _fredifinparse() -- didn't go away, but "adoupdate, update" is still a good thing to do. What did fix _fredifinparse() is described here.

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2 Responses to “Good to know”

  1. Martin Weiss writes:
    No. 1 — July 16th, 2010 at 8:20 am

    The line
    noi di in smcl "{stata adoupdate, update:Run ado update!}"
    should be part of every "profile.do". You could also have Stata execute the line automatically, but, in my case, there are over 320 packages to check, so this practice would slow you down considerably.

  2. Gabi Huiber writes:
    No. 2 — July 18th, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    Well, it's in mine now. Thank you. I don't have nearly as many user-written packages installed, but it's nice to have the option of bypassing when you're in a hurry.

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