Re: st: downloading .ado file from personal directory

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

Katie,
it's best to let Stata install the programs for you using the way it
is designed:
net install foobar, from(foobarsite)

Not all authors provide their code in the format that would be
compatible for the above deployment. Stata's developers explained what
needs to be done here:
http://stata.com/help.cgi?usersite

If you downloaded the files to your computer manually using a browser
(Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or something else) you are likely
to find the downloaded files in your user's download folder. If you
'save-ed as..', then you need to recall where you've saved the files.
Once you know in which folder the files are placed on your computer
you need to tell Stata:

adopath ++ myfolder
e.g
adopath ++ C:\Users\Katie\Downloads\

If the distribution contained any *.mlib files you need to issue a command:
mata mata mlib index

The error message that you quote tells us that a command is
unrecognized. Stata however does not tell WHICH command it does not
recognize. This is not necessarily the same command you typed. It
could be that this command has DEPENDENCIES - other user-written
commands that it needs to function properly. This can be established
by either consulting the author, or more quickly by examining the
trace. See http://stata.com/help.cgi?trace

You can also ask Stata:
 which commandname
(write the name of your command you type instead of commandname above).
If it tells
command commandname not found as either built-in or ado-file
then Stata does not SEE the command implementation file, otherwise it
will show the path where the file is located and it is a dependency
problem.

See for details
http://stata.com/help.cgi?which
http://stata.com/help.cgi?adopath
http://stata.com/help.cgi?net


Best, Sergiy Radyakin

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Katie Farrin <kfarrin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had previously had trouble using findit to locate the user-written
> program ivqreg, for quantile instrumental variables regression (I
> still cannot locate it searching within Stata).  However, I found a
> file of program code (.ado file with several accompanying .mo file
> extensions and a pdf of the undated Stata Journal article explaining
> the code) through an outside search.  My problem now is that I cannot
> get Stata to download the code from my computer.  I have never added
> user-generated programs from outside of Stata, so it is likely that I
> am doing something wrong.
>
> If I use the adopath command and see the folder that stores personal
> .ado files on my C drive and copy the relevant files to the personal
> folder, what then must I do for Stata to run the program?  I am still
> getting the error code r(199) for unrecognized command.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Katie
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