st: Re: different result everytime - something strange

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Generally good advice, but Philippe overlooks one important tool: - 
adoupdate-, which does for SSC, SJ and other user-written materials  
what -update- does for official Stata. Shehzad should do

adoupdate

and see what it says about the currency of the various packages he  
has installed. -adoupdate- cannot determine that a SSC package is an  
update for an installed SJ package, so that might not be helpful  
w.r.t. -glcurve- in particular, but it is a good idea to use the  
command to determine whether you have the latest SSC version.


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


On Jun 21, 2008, at 02:33 , Philippe wrote:


> - -glcurve- is not an official command, but a user-written package  
> (by Stephen Jenkins and myself), so it is not picked up by -update  
> query-. Use -adoupdate- instead. The general advice when you use  
> user-written software is to look for the source and make sure you  
> have the most recent updates -- with several sources available (SJ,  
> STB, SSC, personal pages) not always as easy as with official Stata  
> commands, I admit.
>
> In short, an -ssc install glcurve, replace- should resolve your  
> problem.
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