invalid name r(198);

[Rick Donnelly]

Hi,
I am following an online tutorial and have an issue after the second line of code;

. use "http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmm/media/runmlwin/tutorial.dta", clear

. runmlwin normexam cons, level2(school: cons) level1(student: cons)

<3 invalid name
r(198);

I am running the newest version of stata and have no idea why it is giving me this error.
All variable names are correct and runmlwin has been installed.

[Marcos Almeida]

I didn't check it out in Stat but, as far as my fast search goes, the command is somewhat different:

 runmlwin normexam cons standlrt, level2(school: cons) level1(student: cons) nopause

Hopefully that helps.

[Rick Donnelly]

I found that code online too but alas it gives the same error, thanks anyway

[Nick Cox]

Cross-posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/stata/comme...lid_name_r198/

Please note our explicit policy on cross-posting: You are asked to tell us about it. (What policies apply on Reddit is for those folks to discuss.)

[Nick Cox]

Make sure that you have installed all of the files in the package. For example, use ssc and not a browser.

The problem will bite if the local macro mlwinversion is not defined and that will happen if one of the ancillary programs was not installed.

if `mlwinversion' < 3

[Tingting Tan]

Hello,

I am new to the forum and I'd like to follow up with this question. I've also tried to run the cross-classified model with random effects in Stata (version 15) via runmlwin package; however, I'm running into the same problem 'mlwinversion'<3. As suggested, I have checked that i've installed all the files as well as have defined the mlwin path. This is the command I used to run the model:

global MLwin_path "C:\Program Files (x86)\MLwiN trial\i386\mlwin.exe"
sort highschid id
runmlwin test cons standlrt, level2(highschid:cons) level1(id:cons) nopause
I'd appreciate if anyone could provide further advice.

[David Benson]

Since this is a user-contributed package from SSC, you could try updating it or uninstalling and then re-installing it:

adoupdate runmlwin

ssc uninstall runmlwin
ssc install

[Tingting Tan]

The problem seems to persist after I re-installed the package... thanks anyway.