Hi Nick & Tom
I have installed the package of J. Weesie. Stata still rejected my command
as the below message;
Data are st/Stata 6 and not st/Stata 5.
You are running the old Stata 5 version of st.
We provide it so that researchers may reproduce old analyses.
If you do not mean to be running the old system, type
. version 6
if you do mean to be running the old system, type
. version 5
stset ... fill in the dots with old syntax)
When you are done, type
. version 6
****My understanding is that I have to go back to use the st-command of
version 5, as Tom has recommended. I would get another problem? How to do
so?
The technical support person suggested me using -stsplit- command, but it
did not work for me given a huge database.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 9:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: stegen command and the package installation
Let's back track. -stegen- is a user-written
command. You installed -stegen- from the StataCorp
website files for Stata Technical Bulletin 35,
published in January 1998. In Stata terms, that
is a long time ago. That version of -stegen- was
written for Stata version 5. What's important here is
that in Stata 6 the survival analysis commands
were changed substantially.
. findit stegen
shows that Jeroen Weesie, the author, has a more
up-to-date version of -stegen- written for Stata version
6, which is on his own website. That, possibly, may work
with survival features in version 8. If not, then you will need to come
back to the list and say precisely what you want to do.
More generally, the fact that you are using version 8
doesn't mean that you can use all previous user-written
programs. You can use most, but not all. A few are
broken by changes in Stata since they were written
or for other reasons.
Nick
[email protected]
Parimon, Tanyalak
> I have a quick question about "stegen" command. I have
> learned that I have
> download the analysis package from the web-site, therefore, I did by
> installing from ssa111. But stata did not take my command. It
> kept on saying
> that "Data are st/Stata 6 and not st/Stata 5.You are running
> the old Stata 5
> version of st." I do not understand what that meant since I
> have been using
> stata version 8 all along.
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