ivreghdfe gives an error, although it worked previously

[Mario Liebensteiner]

Dear all,

I am experiencing a strange problem with the command "ivreghdfe". I have a do-file that includes a regression using the estimator "ivregdhfe". The code ran well in the past. However, today, when rerunning this code, I received an error message saying, "option requirements not allowed."

My university recently updated our operating systems to Windows 10, which I thought could have triggered this error. So, I checked if "ivregdhfe" and the underlying packages "ivreg2" and "rehdfe" were already installed. They were.

I then ran the example code from ivreghdfe's help file:

clear
sysuse auto
ivreghdfe price weight (length=gear), absorb(rep78, tol(1e-6))

This gave the same strange error message as before: "option requirements not allowed."

I am running out of ideas about what to do.

I would be thankful for any hints!

Best,
Mario

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Mario:
see https://github.com/sergiocorreia/ivreghdfe/issues/56
Let's hope that Sergio Correia can chime in.

[Mario Liebensteiner]

Carlo, thanks! It's good to know that I'm not the only one having these troubles - though I was hoping it was just a silly mistake that would be easy to resolve :-)

[George Ford]

same here.

[Mario Liebensteiner]

I found that 'ivreghdfe' works just fine on my other laptop, which also runs Windows 10. The do-file and help-file routine mentioned in my initial post both run without issues.

[Mario Liebensteiner]

Dear all,

Is there no solution to my problem? I would appreciate any help!

Best regards,
Mario

[Andrew Musau]

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the command? You should probably do the same with its dependencies. First run

ado

Then look at the package number. If this is, e.g., 29, then

ado uninstall [29]

Then reinstall from https://github.com/sergiocorreia/ivreghdfe. If the latest GitHub version has a bug, revert to the SSC version.

[Sebastien Willis]

I am experiencing the same problem. I am running Stata/MP 18.0 on a brand new Macbook, with Mac OS Sonoma 14.5. All the ado files have just been installed from SSC.

[Andrew Musau]

Try the GitHub version, as it is the one that is actively maintained.

[Mario Liebensteiner]

Dear Andrew,
I am sorry that I am replying with a month delay, but I justed worked on my other computer, where I did not have these problems.

Now, I tried your solution and it did work! **Thank you indeed**




To everybody in this forum who is experiencing similar issues, I followed these steps:

1. I went to https://github.com/sergiocorreia/ivr...e#installation, which Andrew Musau suggested.
2. I followed the installation proces, as suggested on this page:
* Install ftools (remove program if it existed previously) cap ado uninstall ftools net install ftools, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sergiocorreia/ftools/master/src/") * Install reghdfe cap ado uninstall reghdfe net install reghdfe, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sergiocorreia/reghdfe/master/src/") * Install ivreg2, the core package cap ado uninstall ivreg2 ssc install ivreg2 * Finally, install this package cap ado uninstall ivreghdfe net install ivreghdfe, from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/se...fe/master/src/)
with the exception that "ssc install ivreg2" produced the error "the following files already exist and are different: ~\ado\plus\i\ivreg2.ado no files installed or copied (no action taken)". I thus typed "ssc install ivreg2, replace" instead and it worked.

Now, all is running smoothly as it should.