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Re: st: Re: Stata won't recognize a user written command
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Re: Stata won't recognize a user written command
Date
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:34:29 +0100
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Jonah Rexer wrote:
> A colleague sent me the ado file user-written command, "getreg," that
> he wrote. I downloaded the ado file, looked up the ado directory using
> sysdir, and saved it into a directory that stata recognizes. When I run
> the do-file, stata still doesn't recognize the command. But when it
> returns the error message, it says "unrecognized command:
> numformat," which is not the name of the command, nor does
> "numformat" ever even appear in the do file.
It probably means that the program your collegue wrote depends on
another program called -numformat-. Since -findit numformat- did not
find that program, I would guess that he wrote that program to and
forgot to give it to you.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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