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st: Stata's update [was: Error: c(showbaselevels) undefined]
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Nick Winter <[email protected]>
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st: Stata's update [was: Error: c(showbaselevels) undefined]
Date
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:08 -0400
We're in the midst of another round of people having problems with ado
and exe updates being out of sync.
Which raises again the question: why does Stata continue to distinguish
among ado, exe, and utility updates, and why does it allow users to
update each without updating the others (when available)? This seems
like a level of information and control that users don't need.
Why not have a single "update all" facility that does the following:
(1) download all available updates (exe, ado, utilities) to a temporary
area.
(2) confirm that all did download
(3) automatically do an -update swap-, which swaps the exe if needed AND
(only if that worked) moves the ado and utility files from the temporary
area to the relevant update area.
I suppose this is a question for StataCorp, but I'm curious if anyone
sees compelling reasons for Stata NOT to act that way.
- Nick Winter
On 6/16/2010 2:03 PM, Richard Williams wrote:
At 11:35 AM 6/16/2010, Michael N. Mitchell wrote:
Dear Nick
Your update to Stata 11 did not fully complete. Try -update all-
again, and this should mend this.
I think this is at least the 3rd time in a week we have had the exact
same question, right? In addition to what Michael says, pay attention to
the messages on your screen. Stata will want you to click on -update
swap- to finish updating the executable.
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