John,
This seems odd. It appears that you have Stata 8.0 but your call to
-predict- starts with the command -version 8.2- ... which implies it came
with Stata 8.2.
Can you call -update- and see what it says about your executable and ado
versions?
--Mark
Quoting John A Karikari <[email protected]>:
> Hi, Mark and Everyone:
>
> Correction!
> I have Stata 8.0 which I set as a version control. When running
> ivreg2, I get the error statement that "version 8.2 not supported."
>
> Thanks for your insights/advice.
>
> >>> [email protected] 12/02/03 02:10PM >>>
> Hi everybody. Can anyone help with a tricky -version- question?
> It
> goes
> like this:
>
> 1. John has Stata 8.2 and wants to use ivreg2 under version
> control
> set
> to 8.0. He issues the command -version 8.0- at the start of his
> session
> and then calls -ivreg2-.
>
> 2. -ivreg2- starts with the command -version 7-. No problems
> there...
>
> but then:
>
> 3. Internally, -ivreg2- calls the built-in Stata command -predict-.
>
> -predict- starts with the command -version 8.2-. Boom. Stata
> crashes
>
> with the error "version 8.0 not supported".
>
> Any ideas about John can fix this in the short run? Would using the
>
> syntax -version 8.0: ivreg2 xxxx etc- solve this problem? More to
> the
>
> point, as a programmer and co-author of ivreg2, is there a way for
> me
> to
> modify the ivreg2 code so that this problem is avoided in the
> future?
>
> Hoping someone out there can help....
>
> --Mark
>
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