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  • help with installing -listcoef- to Stata13

    Hi, I have stata13 on my computer and I typed -findit listcoef- in the stata window. I see the option for "spost13_ado from https://jslsoc.sitehost.iu.edu/stata"
    But when I try to click on it to install, I keep getting an error message:

    Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
    https://jslsoc.sitehost.iu.edu/stata/ 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(5100);


    Is something wrong with my Stata or is something wrong in how I am trying to install this?

    Thank you in advance for your help!
    Irina

  • #2
    You could try to run directly
    Code:
    net install spost13_ado, from(https://jslsoc.sitehost.iu.edu/stata)
    and see what happens. The error code hints at a problem with the java runtime which is used for all the web related stuff if I understand it correctly.
    Make sure that you have updated your Stata.
    The problem could be related to the usage of "https" in the URL. If you search for "HTTPS problems" or similar, then you might find more explanations about how to solve these issues.

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    • #3
      Stata 13 added support for https: (see help whatsnew12to13). but I get the same error in a later Stata. Otherwise I agree with Sven-Kristjan Bormann
      Last edited by Nick Cox; 11 Mar 2020, 06:41.

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      • #4
        I did not receive an error message when I ran the before mentioned commands in my Stata 14.2 installation.
        However, this package collided with my previous installation of Ben Jann's mgen-command due to a command with the same name but different functionality in the spost13_ado-package.
        So, I could not complete the installation and did not want to uninstall the already existing mgen-command.

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        • #5
          I had similar problems earlier this year with Stata 13 and 14. https: didn't work and, for some reason, various Stata files and folders relating to Java had somehow disappeared. Luckily, I had backups of the Stata folder so I just copied them.

          I think you can
          • Reinstall Stata from scratch, and then do an -update all-
          • Rename the current Stata program folder, and then copy and paste an older backup that you have. Again, do -update all-.
          I don't know why this happened. My theory is that some other update of Java that I did zapped Stata's Java files, even though that isn't supposed to happen. But all seems fine now.
          -------------------------------------------
          Richard Williams, Notre Dame Dept of Sociology
          Stata Version: 17.0 MP (2 processor)

          EMAIL: [email protected]
          WWW: https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam

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          • #6
            Hi All,

            Thank you so much for your suggestions! I have been in touch via email with Stata representatives and after lots of trial and error (largely due to my lack of experience in downloading things to Stata manually), I finally figured out the problem.

            Problem: I have Stata13 and the site for files has been switched from HTTP to HTTPS. That's why "findit listcoef" and "help listcoef" was not working for me (I kept getting the error message)

            Solution: I had to go to <https://jslsoc.sitehost.iu.edu/stata/spost13_ado/> and manually download the 'spost13' package
            • NOTE: there are 2 "spost13_ado" files ending in ".zip" and these are the only 2 you need in order to download all the commands that go with 'spost13' including -listcoef- ...it just made sense to me to download them all since I needed several files from spost13
            Key Point: through trial & error (and Stata representative help), I learned that I had to place the download of these ".zip" files into my "plus" folder.
            1. Run "adopath" in Stata to see where your "plus" folder is located on your computer
            2. Download the two ".zip" files for "spost13_ado" to your computer
            3. Place the two ".zip" files into the "plus" folder and unzip them
            4. Now you can run -listcoef- and all the other commands in the "spost13_ado" package in Stata
            Thank you to...
            Sven-Kristjan Bormann Richard Williams Nick Cox

            I appreciate all your advice

            ​​​​​​​Irina

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