st: choosing between ssc and sj for ado-files

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Michael said

	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:
...
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.


freduse has just been placed on the SJ site with the publication of  
an article about it in SJ 6:3. The two versions are identical. Note  
that -adoupdate- will update both SSC and SJ/STB downloads (as well  
as other user-written materials if their own sites contain the  
necessary information in their package files).

HOWEVER there is no way for -adoupdate- to know that the two packages  
are essentially identical; so if you install the SJ package, only an  
update to the SJ package (via a Software Update in a future issue)  
will show up in -adoupdate-. If an updated version appears first on  
SSC, -adoupdate- will find it if and only if you have installed the  
SSC version of the package.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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