shp2dta : Error when converting shape boundary files to Stata dataset

[Maia DEBS]

Hi all,

I am using shp2dta in Stata 14. I am using Cshapes 2.0 data which maps the borders and capitals of independent states and dependent territories from 1886 to 2019. The data can be found here: https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/

I followed the steps indicated in the help section:

ssc install spmap, replace
sc install shp2dta
ssc install geo2xy  
cd "$user/GIS"
shp2dta using CShapes-2.0, database("CShapes_data") coordinates("Cshapes_coord") genid(_ID)

But I get the following error message:

 fread():   691  I/O error                
fbufget():     -  function returned error              
read_shp():     -  function returned error                  
<istmt>:     -  function returned

error r(691);

I double checked the file paths, and verified the file permissions as well as the file's integrity. I thought the issue might be related to my version of Stata but from what I understood shp2dta should work with Stata 14. Does anyone know what I did wrong? Many thanks for your help.

PS: I initially posted this message in the Sandbox forum by mistake, apologies for the double posting.