Stata issues return code 199 "unrecognized command: <commandname>" when it
cannot find an command whether it be a built-in Stata routine or a
user-written one. (Type -search rc 199- for more info.)
In this particular instance, it cannot find bpagan.ado. I have asked Kit
Baum to see if the varlag template could be rebuilt such that users
downloading varlag would see bpagan.ado being automatically installed when
issuing a -ssc install varlag- call. In the meantime, type -ssc install
bpagan- as well as -ssc install bgtest-.
In general, when encountering r(199), you may issue -findit <commandname>-
to see if the command may available from the SSC site or other internet
sources. E.g.
findit bpagan
turns up
[...]
Web resources from Stata and other users
(contacting http://www.stata.com)
2 packages found (STB omitted)
------------------------------
bpagan from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/b
'BPAGAN': module to perform Breusch-Pagan test for heteroskedasticity /
bpagan computes the Breusch-Pagan Lagrange multiplier test for /
heteroskedasticity in the error distribution, conditional on a / set of
variables which are presumed to influence the error / variance. The
test
[...]
(end of search)
Patrick Joly
[email protected]
[email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Horowitz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:07 PM
To: Joly, Patrick: IAC
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: RE: VARLAG help
I did what you said to do and then ran the data in the help file.
However, when I ran the following command:
varlag investment income consumption, l(8) single corr
this occurred:
Lag length selection statistics - VAR
System variables: investment income consumption
Exogenous variables:
Sample: 1962q1 to 1982q4 (obs = 84)
Equation for investment
-----------------------
Lags vars RMSE FPE SC P(BP) P(LM1) P(LM4) P(LM21)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
> --
unrecognized command: bpagan
r(199);
Do you know what is going on?
Thank you for your help.
mike
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 [email protected] wrote:
> You are getting this error message because -varlag- uses one of Stata's
> undocumented commands, _ts.ado, which was updated recently. Type -update
> query- to see if you have the latest updates to the ado files and the
> executable, followed by
>
> update ado (to update your ado files)
> or
> update all (to update both the ado's and the executable)
>
> and this will solve your problem. The update to _ts.ado occurred in
> mid-July I believe. Since undocumented commands are by their very nature,
> undocumented, I believe it is Stata policy not to report such changes in
> -help whatsnew-.
>
>
> Patrick Joly
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Horowitz [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: VARLAG help
>
>
> I am a grad student at Harvard attempting to use the VARLAG module.
> Unfortunately, when I try to use it, even when I use the example data set
> you provided, I always get the same reply:
>
> if not allowed
> r(101);
>
>
> What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael Horowitz
>
>
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