How to find ado file downloaded through stata

As the author of ice Patrick Royston makes further changes and improvements, the ice package will be updated accordingly. Getting the right version of ice is particularly important because multiply imputed data sets created by one version cannot be used by different versions--and the output of older versions can't be analyzed using mim at all.

The newer versions of ice also include more capabilities than the older ones. Unfortunately, the ice package you want to install isn't trivial to find--it's about a third of the way through the very long list of results you get from findit ice. However, packages are usually named after the main ado file they contain, and that file is normally listed first in the package description.

While few user-written programs are updated as frequently as ice , it's still important to get the latest versions of any user-written programs you install. Sometimes updates will include important bug fixes, though the SSC archive has quality control measures in place to try to catch bugs before the program is distributed. The adoupdate command notes where each package was downloaded from and goes back to that location to see if a more recent version is available.

If there is, you can install the latest version by typing:. You can remove a package by typing. For example, suppose you downloaded some earlier version of ice that was associated with a Stata Journal article. Just typing. Thus you need to identify and remove the older version. To do so, type:. U niversity of W isconsin —Madison.

Join the SSCC. Finding and Installing User-Written Stata Programs There are a tremendous number of user-written programs for Stata available which, once installed, act just like official Stata commands. Type: findit heckman The result is a tremendous amount of information. Installing User-Written Programs If you know the name of the package you want to install, you can install it by typing ssc install package Alternatively, if you identified the package you want using findit you can install it by clicking on its click here to install link.

The easiest way to check that your user-written programs are up-to-date is to type: adoupdate The adoupdate command notes where each package was downloaded from and goes back to that location to see if a more recent version is available. You can remove a package by typing ado uninstall package where package should be replaced by either the name of the package you want to remove or the number it is given by ado dir , including the brackets around it.

Just typing ssc install ice will fail because you already have a copy of ice. Update: Multiple imputation of missing You should then type adoupdate periodically to ensure that ice stays up-to-date. Comment Post Cancel. Nick Cox. First off, never, ever install user-written ado files in BASE. That is for StataCorp code only. If you do that you may mess up official Stata code and you'll make it harder to copy what you've installed to any other computer should you wish to do that.

Second off, much of the point of ssc is that it knows where to put files. Where you are working from is not material. Third, there is no package meanes on SSC and I can't find it anywhere else. Where did you see it mentioned? Dear Daniel, Thank you so much, it worked. Originally posted by Nick Cox View Post. Previous Next.