help mata stataversion()
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Title
[M-5] stataversion() -- Version of Stata being used
Syntax
real scalar stataversion()
real scalar statasetversion()
void statasetversion(real scalar version)
Note: the version number is multiplied by 100: Stata 2.0 is 200, Stata
5.1 is 510, and Stata 13.0 is 1300.
Description
stataversion() returns the version of Stata/Mata that is running,
multiplied by 100. For instance, if you have Stata 13 installed on your
computer, stataversion() returns 1300.
statasetversion() returns the version of Stata that has been set by the
user -- the version of Stata that Stata is currently emulating --
multiplied by 100. Usually stataversion() == statasetversion(). If the
user has set a previous version -- say, version 8 by typing version 8 in
Stata -- statasetversion() will return a number less than stataversion().
statasetversion(version) allows you to reset the version being emulated.
Results are the same as using Stata's version command. version, however,
is specified as an integer equal to 100 times the version you want.
Remarks
It is usually not necessary to reset statasetversion(). If you do reset
statasetversion(), good form is to set it back when you are finished:
current_version = statasetversion()
statasetversion(desired_version)
...
statasetversion(current_version)
Conformability
stataversion():
result: 1 x 1
statasetversion():
result: 1 x 1
statasetversion(version)
version: 1 x 1
result: void
Diagnostics
statasetversion(version) aborts with error if version is less than 100 or
greater than stataversion().
Source code
Functions are built in.
Also see
Manual: [M-5] stataversion()
Help: [M-5] bufio(); [M-5] byteorder(); [M-4] programming
