st: Re: some questions on ivreg2

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Not quite. If Andrea did not heed the warning that the ssc command  
should be used, and downloaded ivreg2 previously with a web browser,  
she might have put it in ~/ado/personal.

. adopath
  [1]  (UPDATES)   "/Applications/Stata/ado/updates/"
  [2]  (BASE)      "/Applications/Stata/ado/base/"
  [3]  (SITE)      "/Applications/Stata/ado/site/"
  [4]              "."
  [5]  (PERSONAL)  "~/ado/personal/"
  [6]  (PLUS)      "~/ado/plus/"
  [7]  (OLDPLACE)  "~/ado/"

Since 5 beats 6, updating ~/ado/plus with the SSC command will leave  
you with a new version in that directory, occluded by an older  
version in ~/ado/personal. I have often been bitten by this myself.

"which ivreg2" is always a good way to find where the current routine  
lives.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Oct 25, 2005, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> This appearance is surprising, as
>
> . ssc inst ivreg2, replace
>
> would use the syntax designed for the purpose.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Andrea Molinari
>
>
> > It seemed that the only way in which I was able to replace
> > the older version
> > was to first delete the previous version of ivreg2 (2.0.0)
> > from my hard drive...
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