carryforward stata 17

[pierre martin]

Hi everyone,
I used to work with the following command: bysort id: carryforward variable, replace but it no longer works in STATA 17. Any idea on how I could do?
Thank you very much ,
best
Pierre

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

The command works just fine for me. Note that -carryforward- is from SSC and not part of official Stata. It is likely that you need to install -carryfoward- for your Stata 17 installation.

which carryforward  // check that you don't have it already
ssc install carryforward

[pierre martin]

Thank you Leonardo! I tried to install it indeed but I get this message

ssc install carryforward
checking carryforward consistency and verifying not already installed...
installing into c:\ado\plus\...
could not rename c:\ado\plus\stata.trk to c:\ado\plus\backup.trk

I have installed several packages over the past few months and I never got this message "could not rename etc...."

Any idea?
Thank you so much!
Pierre M

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

I'm not sure how to go about this. (I'm thinking you can nuke the plus directory and rebuild it by installing all of those packages again...but that's not a great approach if something simpler is possible.)

Perhaps other community members have encountered this issue. You may also consider contacting Stata Technical Services but it may be a few days before you hear a reply with US Thanksgiving approaching.