st: 3499 error message for xtabond2

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

sacrificial lamb

Esmer reported doing

I am using Stata 9.2. I wanna use xtabond2 command. I updated Stata  
using the commands:
' update executable(contacting http://www.stata.com)
Executable update log
     1.  verifying "O:\program files\stata9\" is writeable
     2.  downloading new executable
New executable successfully downloaded
Instructions
     1.  Type update swap
  update swap
no; data in memory would be lost
r(4);

Read and heed the error message, first of all. You did NOT install  
the new executable; you just downloaded it. Get the new executable in  
place, quit Stata, and start Stata again. When you do Mata should be  
able to locate the library of routines associated with xtabond2. I  
have had a similar thing happen in the past in terms of needing to  
rebuild the list of Mata libraries.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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