Argh! Joseph has uncovered a small mess.
I take the blame for not thinking carefully
enough in 1999 about the requirements and
consequences of -adoupdate-, added to Stata 12
December 2005.
The full explanation needs what those wonderful
Guides Verts from Michelin call un peu d'histoire
[a little history].
As far as I can recall, through Kit Baum's good agencies
I put a package of matrix commands on SSC as the
-matodd- package. Then I wrote up some, but not all,
of those commands in the STB as
STB-50 dm69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Further new matrix commands
(help matdelrc, matewm, matmad, matpow if installed) . . . N. J. Cox
7/99 pp.5--9; STB Reprints Vol 9, pp.29--34
collection of new matrix commands providing additional matrix
checking, management, element-wise operators, maximum absolute
difference, and power
-mstdizem- was one of the commands not written up, not because of any perceived
weaknesses, but because it needed a different kind of write-up. (Still not
done.)
(There was a sequel,
STB-56 dm79 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yet more new matrix commands
(help matcorr, matewmf, matvsort, svmat2 if installed) . . N. J. Cox
7/00 pp.4--8; STB Reprints Vol 10, pp.17--23
commands to produce a correlation matrix, elementwise monadic
function of another matrix, selected subsets of matrix rows
and columns, vec or vech of a matrix, elements sorted within
a vector, matrix from a vector, and commands to save matrices
and the article naming was a conscious reflection of Jeroen Weesie's pioneer work:
STB-39 dm49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Some new matrix commands
(help matfunc, varfunc if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . J. Weesie
9/97 pp.17--20; STB Reprints Vol 7, pp.43--48
collection of new matrix commands; several for explicit matrices
and a few for implicit matrices (i.e., variables)
but I don't think they feature in Joseph's problems.)
So, as some programs in the package on SSC weren't included in the STB
publication, and as such were not downloadable from the Stata website, the
-matodd- package remained on SSC.
In the short run, Joseph can just hand-copy the particular files
needed, using -ssc copy-. As I understand it, that circumvents
-adoupdate-.
In the long run, I should probably restructure -matodd- so that
it includes only files not available as dm69 from STB-50.
If Bill Gould is at base, he may want to give better advice.
Nick
[email protected]
Joseph Coveney
> Nick Cox wrote (in the "Deming adjustments" thread):
>
> There is also a matrix-based version
> called -mstdizem- which is also on
> SSC, as part of the -matodd- package.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
>
> I noticed that I don't have -mstdizem-, so I did a -findit
> matodd-. It
> brought up packages on StataCorp's site (users' directory)
> and, of course,
> the one on SSC. I clicked on the hyperlink for SSC's
> -matodd- to install it
> and I got the "following files already exist and are
> different" balk. I
> chose one of the files (-matpow-) in the list in the Viewer
> in order to see
> what's up:
>
> . which matpow
> c:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\STBplus\m\matpow.ado
> *! 1.1.0 NJC 15 June 1999 STB-50 dm69
>
> . type http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/m/matpow.ado
> program def matpow
> * power of square matrix
> *! 1.0.0 NJC 20 July 1998
> [snipped]
>
> When I click on option 2--"Look for an already-installed
> package of the same
> name (which you might then choose to uninstall)"--I get:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------
> directory of installed user-written packages
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------
> all packages containing "matodd.pkg":
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> (none)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------
> (click here to return to the previous screen)
>
>
> Typing -adoupdate matodd- gives:
>
> (no packages match "matodd")
>
> The date given for the package on StataCorp's website is
> January 1999, so I
> couldn't have got -matpow- from there; regardless, I'm not so much
> interested in where I got -matpow- from as much as: how do I
> install -mstdizem- and other -matodd- ado-files without overwriting
> more-recent versions of -matpow- and others?
>
> Does -adoupdate- take care of this automatically, or do I first
> install -matodd- and then go back and re-adoupdate- each of
> the ado-files in
> the list of already-installed packages displayed in the Viewer?
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