Vlookup unable to install

[Lorien Nair]

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to install vlookup by typing in

findit vlookup


search vlookup, all

And I keep getting the error

(contacting http://www.stata.com)
http://www.stata.com/websee.cgi?r=2&...&j=a&k=vlookup could not be opened for read by copytextfile

r(601);

Do let me know how to install this package, thanks!

[William Lisowski]

I'm thinking there may have been a transient problem with the index hosted at stata.com and used by findit and search. Perhaps if you try your commands again, they will now work, as the now do for me.

In any event, the following explicit installation worked for me just now.

. net install vlookup, from(http://www.stata.com/users/kcrow)
checking vlookup consistency and verifying not already installed...
installing into /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/plus/...
installation complete.

[Lorien Nair]

Hi,

Thanks so much for your response. On trying the installation instructions you gave, I got the following output:

net install vlookup, from(http://www.stata.com/users/kcrow)
I/O error
http://www.stata.com/users/kcrow/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).
r(691);

[Lorien Nair]

Also, trying the

 findit

and

search

commands did not work again. I am fairly certain it is a problem with stata.com since the command worked briefly but clicking on the link popped up more errors.

[Nick Cox]

My guess is different. I have to put a high probability on there being a small problem your end.

I too can see the files in question. I would read

help netio

and check that Stata is told of any net settings. FWIW, my experience is that this was more important for versions up to about Stata 14.

So, in any case tell us if you are not using Stata 16 and consider sorting this out with StataCorp technical services.