I believe Kit Baum is out of town, so I'll attempt
a reply on his behalf (also as original joint author
of -ssc-.)
The important detail here is not only the difference
between SSC and -ssc-. That's clear: SSC is an archive,
which as it happens includes both Stata and non-Stata
material, while -ssc- is a Stata command. Also, and
very importantly, SSC came first, and follows its own
rules. It's, emphatically, not controlled by StataCorp,
although I think it's fair to say they are very happy
that it exists. -ssc- is just a tool for accessing SSC's
Stata material. It's an official Stata command.
The detail here is that there is not a one-to-one
correspondence between SSC resources and possible -ssc-
downloads of Stata programs or help files.
I looked to see how -ssc- is written up. The help starts:
"-ssc- works with packages (and files) from the
Statistical Software Components (SSC) archive,
often called the Boston College Archive, and
provided by http://www.repec.org";
In this particular case, the package is just the
file clarify.pkg whose contents you see with
-ssc desc clarify-. There are no further
files corresponding to the -clarify- entry.
The entry is there as a pointer to Gary King's stuff.
-findit clarify- also gets you there, as Friedrich points
out. As many people know, Gary's group provides
resources from his own webpages.
There are a few such entries on SSC, intended
to be helpful rather than the reverse.
In short, -ssc- works exactly as advertised, but
there is no absolute rule that a package need
include Stata .ado and/or .hlp files.
Nick
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Friedrich
> Huebler
> Sent: 25 February 2004 14:45
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: SSC: nothing to install
>
>
> Why does SSC list packages that cannot be installed?
>
> . ssc d clarify
> package clarify from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/c
> [description omitted]
> INSTALLATION AND ANCILLARY FILES
> (none)
> (type -ssc install clarify- to install)
>
> . ssc install clarify
> nothing to install
>
> I could install -clarify- from the author's site after I searched for
> it with -findit-.
>
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
