st: re: installing gam

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Laura said

I have now done this and tried to run the example in the help file  
but it
just says

unrecognized command: gam

I have tried to find a command to let me check if it is in fact  
installed
(as I'm sure I've done this before) but haven't been able to find it.

Any suggestions as to why this might not be working?


I just did

ssc desc gam
net get gam
!unzip gam.zip

and it inflated the zip-file in my current directory. At that point

which gam

shows that it is there. I can't run it, because my machine doesn't  
know what a DOS executable is. But it should be no problem to locate it.

Remember that -net get- puts files in the current directory. The  
current directory is on the -adopath-, so if you unzip the file, it  
should be findable.

Kit


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
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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