Re: st: Problem with -rcpoisson-

[Tim <lists@timbp.com>]

That solved it.  Thank you.
I don't know why I didn't think of restarting Stata -- that probably 
would have been my first suggestion to anyone else!
Tim


On 21/05/2011 11:21, Nick Cox wrote:
> I suspect that you need to rebuild the index of Mata packages on your
> machine.
>
> One easy way to do that is quit Stata and restart.  Or within Stata you  can do
>
> mata: mata mlib index
>
> which will do it on the fly.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Tim<lists@timbp.com>  wrote:
>
> > I am having a problem with -rcpoisson- from Stata Journal 11-1.
> > I suspect it is not installing properly, but I do not know if the problem is
> > at my end or something wrong with the distribution files.
> >
> > Stata reports it is fully updated, and installation of rcpoisson appeared to
> > complete correctly, but there is a missing function when I try to use the
> > command.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > package installation
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > package name:  st0219.pkg
> >         from:  http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj11-1/
> >
> > checking st0219 consistency and verifying not already installed...
> > all files already exist and are up to date.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > (click here to return to the previous screen)
> >
> >
> > . clear all
> >
> > . sysuse auto
> > (1978 Automobile Data)
> >
> > . rcpoisson rep78 price foreign mpg weight , ul(4)
> > <istmt>:  3499  _rcpoisson_main() not found
> > r(3499);
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