estout not recognized in stata 15

[Rochelle Zhang]

Hey all,

Today is my first day using stata 15 . I was a stata 14 user.

My stata 14 do file works for runing a regression , but when I issue

estout

log file says

estout not recognized

Any one had similar problem using stata 15?

Thanks,

Rochelle

[Richard Williams]

Is estout installed? Your old installed files might have gotten zapped during the upgrade. Try installing estout again, e.g.

findit estout

[Clyde Schechter]

More generally, when you transfer from one computer to another, user-written ado-files (and associated other files) from c:\ado\plus need to be explicitly copied from the old computer to the new, or reinstalled from their original sources. A fresh installation of a new version of Stata does not include them. When you are installing a new version of Stata on the old computer, those files are left untouched. When you migrate to a new computer, they are left behind.

So expect to see this same problem with any other user-written programs that got left behind on the old computer.

[Richard Williams]

I often just copy c:\personal\ado from one machine to another. That will generally work fine unless, say, your profile.do has machine-specific commands in it.

If you are at the mercy of some IT person, you can't on them to handle things nicely. If you are getting a new machine, try to make copies of everything beforehand.

This reminds me of one of my pet peeves: you are using Stata in a classroom, and you have to beg some IT person to install updates to a year-old version of Stata. They don't even know about things like the update command. And if they do, they don't like to do updates to one machine when there may be dozens of machines with the same problem.

[Rochelle Zhang]

Thanks Richard and Clyde !