Re: st: New version of -somersd- on SSC

[Elizabeth Rainwater <erainwat@sfbrgenetics.org>]

Stata updated my somersd successfully, but the date-stamp on the new
version is the same.

 which somersd
c:\ado\plus\s\somersd.ado
*! Author: Roger Newson
*! Date: 23 April 2006

 adoupdate, update
(note: adoupdate updates user-written files; type -update- to check for
updates to official Stata)

Checking status of installed packages...

[...]

   [24] somersd at http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s:
        package has been updated on server

[...]

Packages to be updated are...

   [24] somersd      -- 'SOMERSD': module to calculate Kendall's tau-a,
Somers' D and median differences

Installing updates...

   [24] somersd

Cleaning up... Done

 which somersd
c:\ado\plus\s\somersd.ado
*! Author: Roger Newson
*! Date: 23 April 2006


Joseph McCrary wrote:
> I have the same result.
>
> And, when I net from ssc, I get
>
>
> . ssc install somersd, replace
> checking somersd consistency and verifying not already installed...
> all files already exist and are up to date.
>
> After which I issue the -which- command
>
> . which somersd
> c:\ado\plus\s\somersd.ado
> *! Author: Roger Newson
> *! Date: 23 April 2006
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Clive Nicholas
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:51 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: New version of -somersd- on SSC
>
> Roger Newson wrote:
>
>
> > Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -somersd- package is now
> > available for download from ssc. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do
> > this.
> [...]
>
> Is there any reason why -somersd- won't update itself via -adoupdate-?
>
> . adoupdate, update
> (note: adoupdate updates user-written files; type -update- to check
> for updates to official Stata)
>
> Checking status of installed packages...
>
> [...]
>
>    [90] somersd at http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s:
>         installed package is up to date
>
> [...]
>
> The current version I have is:
>
> . which somersd
> c:\ado\plus\s\somersd.ado
> *! Author: Roger Newson
> *! Date: 23 April 2006
>
> whereas
>
>
> > Author: Roger Newson
> > Distribution-date: 12June2007
> > Stata-version: 9
> Thanks!
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