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

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

At 06:21 PM 4/6/2012, John Luke Gallup wrote:
> 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

I think Bill Gould explained this (or part of this) three years ago:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-02/msg00648.html

In a nutshell, version control doesn't work when it comes to Mata 
compilation. I think one solution is to actually do the compiling 
using Stata 9.2 (if you still have a copy anyway). My memory is 
vaguer on this, but I believe you can also just delete the compiled 
libraries and let Stata recreate them, at least if you have provided 
the original Mata code. I've never had to do this because I usually 
have the latest version of Stata, but maybe somebody else can provide 
the exact details.

I don't know why SSC and SJ would differ, unless the compilation was 
done with different versions of Stata.


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