search and help both can't list pkg information in internet/SSC

[Chen Samulsion]

Dear Stata users,

A simple question here. When I use search or help command to search an user-written command (concretely, -regoptwgt- written by David Price , and see here New command -regoptwgt- in SSC), both can not give any result. And I'm sure that the command I searched is stored in SSC. And I have set seach all permanently. Bellow are codes and results. Thank you.

set searchdefault all, permanently

[Nick Cox]

I can't reproduce the problem. Note that even for SSC packages StataCorp don't maintain a database of packages, That would imply a commitment to editing the database not only just when packages are added but also on the less frequent occasions when packages are deleted. Either way, changes occur almost daily. StataCorp relies for search beyond official documentation (here including the Stata Journal) on what is found by a daily internet trawl. If SSC is down -- which event has a frequency perhaps of the order of 1 in 100 -- then packages won't be found until the next successful trawl.

[Chen Samulsion]

Thank you very much Nick Cox.