st: GAMFIT failure despite updated gam

["Matthew Baldwin, MD" <mrb45@columbia.edu>]

Statalisters,

   Despite having downloaded the most uptodate gam program that  
includes gam, gamfit, gambig, gamhuge, gamhug2, unzipping it, and  
indicating to Stata where the program is, I still get the following  
error message below.

   Of note, I run Windows 7, and initally received an r(603) message  
after running the code below, and after doing what was recommended:  
'update all, update swap', and now running Stata 11 as an  
administrator, I still cant get the gam program to work.

It worked previously on this computer with this code before it was  
rebuilt/reinstalled.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

ssc desc gam
ssc install gam
!unzip gam.zip

global GAMDIR C:\ado\plus\g\
gam yvar xvar if dcyear > 2005, f(binomial) link(logit) df(xvar:3) big
GAMFIT failure, $.out not found
stats not found
r(111);

Thanks,


Matthew Baldwin, MD
Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

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