Replicating package

[Michael Cruz]

I followed the steps and changed the working directory. The package says it takes 1.5hr to complete but mine was stuck for more than that after it finished installing other replication kit. I tried rerunning the do file but now it just keeps saying

command egenmore not found as either built-in or ado-file
connection timed

stata 17 m1 mba

[Daniel Schaefer]

-egenmore- is a community-contributed command. I don't know what "replicating package" you are referring too, but it is probably also community-contributed code. Downloading egenmore from SSC might help clear that error, but it's possible the code you downloaded is not actively maintained and may be buggy in other ways.

[Michael Cruz]

That’s what I thought. It is the wage stagnation by Massenkoff and Wilmers. I tried downloading the package again, but this time it would stop at around 30min and say connection timed out or Stata would say that a certain file can’t be found on the website.

[Nick Cox]

See the earlier message https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...archive-access

As I write, SSC is still down, and a wild guess is that a solution may not be produced until IT people at Boston College get to it in their working hours.

[Michael Cruz]

Appreciate the info!

[Nick Cox]

SSC is up again.

[Clyde Schechter]

command egenmore not found as either built-in or ado-file

This message disturbs me and suggests that it may not be as simple as installing the egenmore package. That's because, even after installing the egenmore package, there is no egenmore command. The egenmore package is a package of -egen- functions that extend the capabilities of the -egen- command. These additional -egen- functions do things that the official -egen- functions do not cover; many of them are very useful.

My point is that this error message suggests that whatever this replicating package is, it may attempt to invoke an -egenmore- command. If so, O.P. will need to hack into it and fix that error.

Added: Actually, if you try to invoke an -egenmore- command, the error message you get is different from that shown in #1: "command egenmore is unrecognized." There may be other possibilities, but the only command that comes to my mind that will give "command egenmore not found as either built-in or ado-file" is -which egenmore-. It may be that the replicating package uses a command like -capture which egenmore- to verify that the -egenmore- package is installed and then echoes that error message if it finds it isn't. In that case, this error message is not worrisome and will be eliminated just by installing the egenmore package.

[Nick Cox]

To check that egenmore has been installed, look for its help file. That's not failsafe, but it would work most of the time.