Allan has been a Stata user since at least 1991 -- he
had a contribution in the very first STB -- but he
missed the difference between -search- and -search, net-
or -findit-, as others pointed out.
The difference hinges on a crucial practicality. StataCorp
can index its own commands and other official or near-official
material (e.g. its own FAQs, Stata Journal, STB, UCLA FAQs, ...) but
what exists in the wider world is difficult to pin down
and is in any case labile: programs can disappear as well
as appear.
Thus -search- (narrow sense, sensu stricto) looks _only_
in the .key files with your installation.
-search, net- (wide sense, sensu lato) looks also at
a database compiled daily by a StataCorp search engine.
Nick
[email protected]
Allan Reese
> Looking for TRELLIS plots, I found a hint on the Stata
> website, but only as a consequence of Kit Baum's dogged
> attempts to distribute the SSC hit parade. "search trellis"
> from inside Stata found nothing, but "ssc install trellis"
> fetched the package. What's the trick for getting into
> search, and what other goodies are we missing out on because
> they don't get found?
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
