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st: Choosing between SSC & SJ for ado files
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)
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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:
[email protected] / 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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