svmat2 command unrecogonized

[Syed Raza]

Hello everyone,

I am using this code

svmat2 results_IEs, names(col) rnames(var) full

which should work fine. But stata gives me error svmat2 command unrecognized. When i try to install using

ssc install svmat2

It tells me there is no such command with ssc which is svmat2. Please tell me how can i install svmate2 if it is just an installation matter? Thanks

[Basharat Hussain]

Kindly find svmat2 by:

findit svmat2

and then click on the first link to install svmat2:

dm79 from http://www.stata.com/stb/stb56

Hope it helps.

[Syed Raza]

Thanks

[Nick Cox]

At this distance (2018 from 2000) it's hard to remember what svmat2 does, but https://www.stata.com/products/stb/journals/stb56.pdf p.5 tells us:

svmat2 takes a matrix and stores its columns as new variables. It is the reverse of mkmat. svmat2 adds to svmat (in official Stata) options to save matrix row names in a new string variable and to use any desired new variable names. Matrix column names including colons : (always) or periods . (usually) cannot be used as variable names.

Whatever the problem behind #1 is, it's likely that using Mata now is a better idea. Goodness knows why I wrote that periods can appear in variable names.

[Syed Raza]

I have installed the command on my other system last night. Now i am trying to install with the prescribed procedure in #2 from last two hours and it says system not available. What's happening with STATA?

[Nick Cox]

StataCorp like every other company of similar kind sometimes shuts down briefly for site maintenance, but I just tried the link to the Stata website and it worked for me. Sorry, but I can't say more about why you're finding installation difficult.