Problem with freduse command

[Bill Montgomery]

Hi,
I'm using Stata 13.1 for Windows. Just noticed that freduse command has stopped working (it was working before).
This is what I get:


file http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2...ta/DEXUSAL.txt not found
server says file permanently redirected to https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred...ta/dexusal.txt
cannot copy DEXUSAL from http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2...ta/DEXUSAL.txt

file __000000.txt not found {p_end} r(601);

Any advice on how to solve this problem would be much appreciated. Thank you

[Friedrich Huebler]

freduse is a package that can be downloaded from SSC, as FAQ section 12 asks you to mention.

Look for the file _fredweb.ado. The default location is the folder "C:\ado\plus\_". Go to line 37 and replace "http" by "https". In other words, change this:

local fbase "http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series"

to this:

local fbase "https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series"

Restart Stata and try again.

. freduse DEXUSAL
(11,605 observations read)