Error updating somersd; perhaps due to general update problem?

[Leah Bevis]

I'm unable to use the cendif command within the somersd package. The error I get is identical to that mentioned here. If I type
sysuse auto.dta
cendif price, by(foreign)

I get the error: tidotforsomersd(): 3499 tidottree() not found

I have updated my libraries (mata: mata mlib query returns a library list ending in lsomersd), restarted Stata, updated the package (adoupdate somersd), and restarted my computer. However, I cannot seem to update ALL ado files... when I try update all, I get the error/stop message cannot write in directory /Applications/Stata/ado/base/0. So perhaps this is the problem? I've looked and this folder exists but is empty. I have no idea why Stata would have trouble writing into it.

Help would be appreciated!

[Nick Cox]

I'd suggest contacting StataCorp technical support. Note that that directory has nothing to do with community-contributed commands.

[Leah Bevis]

Ah, ok thanks for the advice, I'll do that. For clarity, do you mean to say that Statalist is not meant for discussion of user-written commands? I see such threads commonly, and had no idea, if so.

[Nick Cox]

Not at all. Such commands get mentioned here every day, or so I guess.

The point is that user-written (community-contributed) commands would not, or should not, be installed in directory /Applications/Stata/ado/base/0 so that problem is nothing to do with incomplete files for somersd.

I would also flag your OS. See https://www.statalist.org/forums/help#platforms

As no member here has diagnosed the difficulty within 18 hours of your posting, that rather underlines the point of contacting StataCorp.

[Leah Bevis]

Ok, great, thanks for the clarification; this makes much more sense. And right, that makes sense about the base ado files vs. somersd. I'll contact StataCorp right now.

[Saeid Bitaraf]

dont download "somersd" from ssc. Use findit command and download somersd from snp15_6

[daniel klein]

dont download "somersd" from ssc. Use findit command and download somersd from snp15_6

snp15_6 is from SJ and is (out)dated 2006 ...

I recommend downloading the latest version of community-contributed software, which in many (but not all!) cases is found in the SSC archives. somersd from SSC is last updated 2020.

[Saeid Bitaraf]

thanks alot