st: RE: Link for dropmiss.ado

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

-dropmiss- is one of mine. I don't think it has ever had a home on SSC, so it is no surprise that attempts to download from SSC do not work; that is, far from this link being broken, it never existed. 

-dropmiss- was first made public in STB-60. 

If your version of Stata is 6 or 7, you should use that link. 

If your version of Stata is 8 up, you should install from the SJ 8-4 link below. 

SJ-8-4  dm89_1  . . . . Dropping variables or observations with missing values
        (help dropmiss if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        Q4/08   SJ 8(4):594
        update in style and content; added a new force option

STB-60  dm89  . . . . . Dropping variables or observations with missing values
        (help dropmiss if installed)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  N. J. Cox
        3/01    pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 10, pp.44--46
        drops variables or observations with all values (optionally
        any values) missing

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Dorothy Bridges

I am abroad and cannot use net install, findit, etc. because of a
proxy/firewall issue that my host institution insists is not
resolvable.  I've been downloading ados and installing them by hand,
which is find, except that the link for DROPMISS --
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/d/dropmiss.ado -- seems to be broken,
and I can't find it anywhere else.  Any advice would be much
appreciated.

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