The time taken to update a package to Stata 11 depends on the package, and on what Stata 11 features you want it to use.
If you only want to change the on-line help to refer to the Stata 11 .pdf manuals, then indeed it might only take 5 minutes (see online help for -smcl- under -manlink- and -manhelp-). If you want to make your varlists take factor variables, then it might take a few minutes more (see -help syntax- and -help fvexpand- for details), and then it would be a good idea to certify your program to be sure that it works (see -help cscript- for details). However, if you want to take advantage of the new factor variable facilities so as to read the column labels of an estimates vector and work out what factors and values are involved, then you really need to type
help undocumented
and read all references beginning with -_ms_- (short for "matrix stripe") before doing any programming.
And it is very, very helpful to have access to Statalist, and to be able to send any really advanced enquiries there, where they will be answered very helpfully by StataCorp people, even though they have been very busy recently getting Stata 11 in a fit state for use by ordinary users. (Thanks again to Vince and Alan for all the help.)
Best wishes
Roger
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Williams
Sent: 11 August 2009 21:01
To: [email protected]; '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: st: New Stata 11 version of -parmest- on SSC
At 12:33 PM 8/11/2009, Newson, Roger B wrote:
>Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -parmest- package is now
>available for download on SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do
>this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -parmest-.
>
>The -parmest- package is described as below on my website. The new
>version has been updated to Stata Version 11. The -parmby- module
>can therefore now handle estimation commands with Stata 11 factor
>variable lists. I have also added two new options -omit- and -empty-
>to the -parmest- and -parmby- commands, allowing the user optionally
>to create new indicator variables -omit- and -empty- (respectively)
>in the output dataset (or resultsset), indicating whether the
>corresponding parameter was omitted from the model because of
>collinearity, or because it corresponds to an empty cell.
Roger is making all us people who haven't updated our packages yet to
work with Stata 11 look bad. :)
Does it take 5 minutes to update a program to take advantage of Stata
11? Or is it more complicated than that? I think it would be nice
if somebody at Stata or elsewhere did a little FAQ on this, if it
doesn't exist already. I imagine there will be a new version of the
Stata ML book sooner or later, but something in the meantime with
updates for Stata 11 would be helpful.
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