RE: st: -examples- downloadable from SSC

[Roger Harbord <roger.harbord@bristol.ac.uk>]

Thanks for writing this Nick - a very good idea.  I'll include it in our next 
Introduction to Stata course - i'm sure the students will like it.

One thing: I get an error if i type :

. examples log()

invalid 'Files'
r(198);

- although :

. wexamples log()

- works fine.


I can fix it by changing the line :

       type `r(fn)', smcl

- in the "special code for e.g. -examples log()- " bit of examples.ado to :

       type `"`r(fn)'"', smcl


(i know it wouldn't happen if i didn't have Stata installed in "C:\Program 
Files..." i.e. a path with a space in it but there's not a lot i can do myself 
about that.)

Roger.
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Roger Harbord     mailto:roger.harbord@bristol.ac.uk
Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol

--On 15 July 2004 16:26 +0100 Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:


> There has been a flurry of emails on -examples-
> today. More people than Alan may be interested in
> an explanation of where it is, at this instant.
>
> Thanks to Kit Baum, the version now on SSC
> is -examples- 1.1.1 15 July 2004 and it
> requires Stata 8.2. This is not so much
> because the code depends on recent changes
> to Stata, as because the examples of -examples-
> refer to things that have only recently become
> possible. Setting the version to 8.2 was my
> signal to users: you need to -upgrade- your
> Stata, and that is the answer to Alan. (Or,
> get your local systems person to do it.)
>
> When I announced -examples- this a.m. (GMT),
> I flagged three things as on a list to think
> about:
>
> 1. -examples- needs to be fixed so that it understands e.g.
>
> . examples log()
>
> 2. Some people might want the examples to be shown in the Viewer
> (perhaps through a -wexamples-, by analogy with -whelp-).
> I'm agnostic about that, but interested in strong views.
>
> 3. -examples- needs to be smarter about echoing repeated
> blank lines.
>
> All are now done, as of this p.m. (GMT).
>
> If you downloaded -examples- earlier today, please
> reinstall:
>
> . ssc inst examples, replace
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Alan Neustadtl
> > I tried to install the examples program and on execution get
> > the following message:
> >
> > . examples logit
> > version 8.2 not supported
> > r(9);
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