Re: st: Errror in cendif - tidotforsomersd(): 3499 tidottree() not found

[Richard Palmer-Jones <rpjstatalist@googlemail.com>]

Yes, this fixed it

Thanks for the advice.

RIcahrd


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> The fix to Richard's problem is probably to exit Stata after installing the
> -somersd- package (which includes -cendif-) and then launch Stata again. The
> -somersd- package (including -cendif-) should then work.
>
> The reason for this is that the -somersd- package includes a Mata library
> -lsomersd.mlib-. In general. Stata looks for Mata routines in a list of
> libraries, which can be found by typing, in Stata
>
> mata: mata mlib query
>
> This list is constructed when Stata is launched. In some versions of Stata
> (but not others), Stata does not update its list of Mata libraries to be
> searched when a new package (such as -somersd-) is installed. This has the
> consequence that, if the user then tries to use the -somersd- package, then
> Stata looks for the Mata procedure -tidottree()- in its old list of
> libraries, and does not find -tidottree()-, and therefore gives the error
> message
>
> tidotforsomersd():  3499  tidottree() not found
>
> that James has received. If James exits Stata and then launches Stata again,
> then Stata should re-initialize its list of Mata libraries to be searched,
> and this list should then include the Mata library -lsomersd.mlib-, which
> contains -tidottree()- and other Mata procedures used by the -somersd-
> package.
>
> I hope this helps. Let me know if there are any problems.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Roger
>
>
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> On 01/07/2010 15:34, Richard Palmer-Jones wrote:
>>
>> Dear Readers
>>
>> I have the following error:
>>
>> . cendif incompc, by(_treat)
>> variable incompc not found
>> r(111);
>>
>> . cendif incomepc, by(_treat)
>> Y-variable: incomepc ((mean) incomepc)
>> Grouped by: _treated (psmatch2: Treatment assignment)
>> Group numbers:
>>
>>   psmatch2: |
>>   Treatment |
>>  assignment |      Freq.     Percent        Cum.
>> ------------+-----------------
>> ------------------
>>   Untreated |        260       33.85       33.85
>>     Treated |        508       66.15      100.00
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>       Total |        768      100.00
>>        tidotforsomersd():  3499  tidottree() not found
>>                  <istmt>:     -  function returned error
>> Mata run-time error
>> r(3499);
>>
>>
>> treat is 0/1; incomepc is continuous
>>
>> cendif is dated 4th August 2008, and somersd has teh same date.
>>
>> tidotforsomersd():  3499  tidottree()  are bothe in c:\ado/plus/t
>> which is in my ado path.
>>
>> . which cendif
>> c:\ado\plus\c\cendif.ado
>> *! Author: Roger Newson
>> *! Date: 04 August 2008
>>
>> . adopath
>>   [1]  (UPDATES)   "C:\Program Files\Stata11\ado\updates/"
>>   [2]  (BASE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata11\ado\base/"
>>   [3]  (SITE)      "C:\Program Files\Stata11\ado\site/"
>>   [4]              "."
>>   [5]  (PERSONAL)  "c:\ado\personal/"
>>   [6]  (PLUS)      "c:\ado\plus/"
>>   [7]  (OLDPLACE)  "c:\ado/"
>>
>> I am running Stata 11.1 born 16/6/2010
>>
>> All advice very gratefully recieved.
>>
>> Richard
>>
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