Re: st: new outreg and error code r(3499)

[John Luke Gallup <jlgallup@pdx.edu>]

I have gotten a couple of emails off of Statalist about this problem in the past day or two.  It seems to be an incompatibility of mata libraries compiled under Stata 12.1 with previous versions of Stata.  When I create the mata library, I use version control set for version 9.2, but it does not seem to do the trick.  I am perplexed why the -outreg- package downloaded from stata-journal.com works for Neil Meredith whereas the version on SSC, which should be identical, does not.  The error message received by another user who contacted me was this:

(_CColJoin() in l_cfrmt, compiled by Stata 12.1, is too new to be run by this version of Stata and so was ignored)
              MakeSmat():  3499  _CColJoin() not found
             CalcStats():     -  function returned error
                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error
r(3499);
 
I have asked Stata Technical Support for help with this, but I would appreciate ideas from Statalisters as well.

John


On Apr 6, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Nick Cox wrote:

> I am pleased you solved your problem but your wording implies some
> misunderstanding. The -ssc- command allows downloads from SSC; whether
> SSC holds the latest version of anything is another question.
> 
> Nick
> 
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Meredith, Neil <nmeredith@mail.wtamu.edu> wrote:
>> It turns out that I was not getting the most recent version of -outreg- using -ssc install outreg-. I had to force installation of the most up to date version by using -findit outreg- and clicking on the link for sg97_4 from http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj12-1.
>> 
>> Thanks Nick, and everyone else, for your help.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
>> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:35 AM
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Subject: Re: st: new outreg and error code r(3499)
>> 
>> You are  not saying where you got your files from or _exactly_ how you installed them. Equally I am still just guessing that the problem lies in your installation because I can't reproduce the error. But exactly how you did it may be the root of the problem.
>> 
>> What you seem to be missing is code for _CColJoin() which I guess to be included in
>> 
>> http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj12-1/sg97_4/l_Cfrmt.mlib
>> 
>> John Gallup, the author of -outreg-, should be able to advise more directly.
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Neil R. Meredith <nrmeredith@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Any ideas on how to update earlier versions of a Mata function?
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The new -outreg- command is user-written and from Stata Journal 12(1).
>>>> Please remember that you are asked to explain this.
>>>> 
>>>> I just installed -outreg- and and the same code worked fine for me on
>>>> Stata 10.1. So, despite the installing and uninstalling, something is
>>>> wrong with the way you did it. The difficulty lies in the Mata
>>>> functions, which in this case are in a library. My wild guess is that
>>>> Stata is seeing an earlier version of those Mata functions and one
>>>> has been rewritten.
>>>> 
>>>> Nick
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Neil R. Meredith <nrmeredith@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I've been working with the new outreg command and keep receiving
>>>>> error code r(3499). I've read all the posts I could find in the
>>>>> archive related to this problem and I've tried installing and
>>>>> uninstalling outreg, installing outreg then restarting Stata before
>>>>> using outreg, restarted my computer, and uninstalled then
>>>>> reinstalled Stata. I am using Stata version 10.1. Here is an example of what I am seeing:
>>>>> 
>>>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>>>> (1978 Automobile Data)
>>>>> 
>>>>> reg mpg foreign weight
>>>>> 
>>>>>     Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =
>>>>> 74
>>>>> -------------+------------------------------           F(  2,    71)
>>>>> -------------+=   69.75
>>>>>      Model |   1619.2877     2  809.643849           Prob > F      =
>>>>> 0.0000
>>>>>   Residual |  824.171761    71   11.608053           R-squared     =
>>>>> 0.6627
>>>>> -------------+------------------------------           Adj R-squared
>>>>> -------------+=  0.6532
>>>>>      Total |  2443.45946    73  33.4720474           Root MSE      =
>>>>> 3.4071
>>>>> 
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ----------
>>>>>        mpg |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf.
>>>>> Interval]
>>>>> -------------+------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> -------------+----------
>>>>>    foreign |  -1.650029   1.075994    -1.53   0.130      -3.7955
>>>>> .4954422
>>>>>     weight |  -.0065879   .0006371   -10.34   0.000    -.0078583
>>>>> -.0053175
>>>>>      _cons |    41.6797   2.165547    19.25   0.000     37.36172
>>>>> 45.99768
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> ----------
>>>>> 
>>>>> . outreg
>>>>>             MakeSmat():  3499  _CColJoin() not found
>>>>>            CalcStats():     -  function returned error
>>>>>                <istmt>:     -  function returned error r(3499);
>>>>> 
>>>>> I thought that this issue was fixed this past summer. Does anyone
>>>>> have any suggestions? Your help is greatly appreciated.
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