st: Choosing between SSC & SJ for ado files

["Michael S. Hanson" <mshanson@mac.com>]

	I am interested in installing the -freduse- command that was just  
announced in SJ 6-3.  (This command allows one to load macroeconomic  
data directly into Stata from the Federal Reserve Economic Database  
(FRED) at the St. Louis Fed.)  -findit freduse- returns two sources  
for the corresponding package:


2 packages found (Stata Journal and STB listed first)
-----------------------------------------------------

st0110 from http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj6-3
    SJ6-3 st0110.  Importing Federal Reserve economic data /  
Importing Federal
    Reserve economic data / by David M. Drukker, StataCorp / Support:
    ddrukker@stata.com / After installation, type help freduse

freduse from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/f
    'FREDUSE': module to Import FRED (Federal Reserve Economic  
Database) data
    / The FRED repository at http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ /  
contains
    over 3,000 U.S.  economic time series.  Each time series / is  
stored in a
    separate file that also contains a string-date / variable and  
header with


Based on this message from Kit Baum,

<http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-06/msg00827.html>,

do I understand correctly that installing from SSC (that is, RePEc)  
is preferable if a package is updated more frequently than once a  
quarter and one plans to use -adoupdate- to manage installed  
packages?  Thanks for any clarification on this question.

                                        -- Mike


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