Re: st: GAMFIT failure despite updated gam

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I don't know what the difficulty is here. I'd just offer the oblique
comment that work with this model seems to have faded away. In Stata,
at least, it's much easier to work with restricted cubic splines or
fractional polynomials.

Nick

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Matthew Baldwin, MD
<mrb45@columbia.edu> wrote:

>   Despite having downloaded the most uptodate gam program that includes gam,
> gamfit, gambig, gamhuge, gamhug2, unzipping it, and indicating to Stata
> where the program is, I still get the following error message below.
>
>   Of note, I run Windows 7, and initally received an r(603) message after
> running the code below, and after doing what was recommended: 'update all,
> update swap', and now running Stata 11 as an administrator, I still cant get
> the gam program to work.
>
> It worked previously on this computer with this code before it was
> rebuilt/reinstalled.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> ssc desc gam
> ssc install gam
> !unzip gam.zip
>
> global GAMDIR C:\ado\plus\g\
> gam yvar xvar if dcyear > 2005, f(binomial) link(logit) df(xvar:3) big
> GAMFIT failure, $.out not found
> stats not found
> r(111);
>

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