Re: st: confirmatory factor analysis programs [was: RE: Stata support]

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Not not so. I was wrong and Stas was right. The references are there
but commented out.

Nick

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not so. -confa- on SSC still uses -listutil-.
>
> Don asked where -listutil- files are stored. As I said earlier, the
> files are on SSC. --ssc desc listutil- gives the details. I think it
> is Stas's job to explain which files are needed as the particular
> files are named within -confa-'s code.
>
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In fact, the version on SSC uses only the official commands, and does
>> not depend on -listuil- package. Please download that version and see
>> if it runs OK.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nick is right. I programmed -confa- using his -listutil-
>>> (unfortunately for disconnected Statas), and I've been planning to
>>> refactor it using the official -local : list- for some while now. May
>>> be it is time to finally do it!
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> Stas Kolenikov has quite different versions of his programs of different vintages under different names in at least three different places. -confa- (SSC, SJ) is evidently what you are trying to install. There is also -cfa1- from http://web.missouri.edu/~kolenikovs/stata.
>>>>
>>>> -listutil- is a quite different (and ancient) package on SSC. As it happens, it's mine.
>>>>
>>>> The help file for -confa- does explain for you exactly what is going on:
>>>>
>>>> "confa relies on listutil for some parsing tasks. If listutil is not installed in your Stata, confa will try to install it from the SSC (ssc install listutil). If the installation is unsuccessful, confa will issue an error message and stop."
>>>>
>>>> So, you also need to copy across the -listutil- files that -confa- uses from SSC. The automated -ssc- call won't work in your case, as you discovered. You don't need them all but evidently -confa- uses several.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>>>>
>>>> Don Stryker [edited]
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to add the CFA programs produced by Stanislav Kolenikov to a machine running Stata 10 w/out an internet connection. I have downloaded the files on one computer and transferred them to "ado" folder under the v10 machine's Stata directory. Something is amuck as when I try to run confa response is "unknown command: confa". I have opened the .ado files from Stata directly and then confa is recognized, but now I get a different error: "listutil not found...trying to install from ssc..."
>>>>

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