Richard Williams replied:
[Hiya Rich! Hope you're well.]
> I have found that problems with adoupdate can sometimes be solved by
> uninstalling and then re-installing the package, so you might try
> that. (Just make sure that the package can be re-installed or that
> you have a backup of its files.)
I have to fess up to trying to do something really dumb just now - I tried
to -ssc uninstall- it, forgetting that it was part of official Stata. How
I laughed.
Seriously, though, with courtesy to Nick Cox, he informed me privately
that the package in question (Gary King et al's -clarify-) might have been
installed in such a way as to bypass -net install- (it was, but other
user-written packages I've downloaded in much the same way _are_ picked up
by -adoupdate-). He advised that I
. viewsource stata.trk [a potential Stata Tip?]
to look and see whether the component routines of the -clarify- package
were there; and, lo, they weren't. As Nick reminded me, -adoupdate- and
-mypkg- are very much dependent upon what they find in stata.trk. So if
-clarify- (or whatever) ain't there, there's not much they can do, other
than you moving it to stata.trk manually, of course.
Bottom line: there will never be another update to -clarify-, anyway (Gary
King has no interest whatsoever in developing it further in Stata, which
is a shame, but that's his call and my problem); and there's no fault in
-adoupdate-.
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