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Re: Re: Re: st: new package -smvcir- available in SSC
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Christopher Baum <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: Re: st: new package -smvcir- available in SSC
Date
Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:33:43 +0000
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On Dec 18, 2013, at 2:33 AM, David wrote:
>
> Thanks Kit, I got the data but now it is not in Stata format. see below
> . net get smvcir
> checking smvcir consistency and verifying not already installed...
>
> copying into current directory...
> copying wine.dta
> ancillary files successfully copied.
>
> . use wine
> file wine.dta not Stata format
> r(610);
Authors submitting materials to the SSC Archive must indicate what version of Stata is needed for their routine. If the routine runs on Stata version X, it is a reasonable expectation that the ancillary files are usable in Stata version >=X. As -smvcir- requires Stata 13, it is reasonable that the authors did not provide a dataset readable in versions < 13. They could do so, but you could not run their code with the data, so what's the point?
The wine dataset is assuredly in Stata 13 format.
. desc
Contains data from wine.dta
obs: 178
vars: 14 9 Dec 2013 15:00
size: 8,722 (_dta has notes)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cultivar byte %10.0g cultivar
alcohol float %9.0g Alcohol
malicacid float %9.0g MalicAcid
ash float %9.0g Ash
alcash float %9.0g AlcAsh
mg int %8.0g MG
phenols float %9.0g Phenols
flav float %9.0g Flav
nfp float %9.0g NFO
proa float %9.0g Proa
color float %9.0g Color
hue float %9.0g Hue
od float %9.0g OD
proline int %8.0g Proline
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Kit Baum
Professor of Economics and Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA, USA
DIW Research Professor, Department of Macroeconomics, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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