freduse error

[Ariel Karlinsky]

freduse is an ado:
findit freduse

when I'm using freduse I get the following error:

. freduse UNRATE, clear
unknown network protocol
  cannot copy UNRATE from https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE/downloaddata/UNRATE.txt

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

manually going to "https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/UNRATE/downloaddata/UNRATE.txt", the file is available so it's probably not an issue with FRED database itself... any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Nick Cox]

What Stata version are you using? https support was added in Stata 13.

Did you update freduse?

net describe st0110_1, from(http://www.stata-journal.com/software/sj15-3)

See also
http://www.statalist.org/forums/foru...reduse-command

[Ariel Karlinsky]

The version of freduse I have is updated with the https definition. I use stata 12.1, that's probably the issue here =/

[Phil Besuner]

I was having the same problem using the latest freduse installation. In c:\ado\plus\_\_fredweb.ado, I changed line 16 to tempfile fname (it was tempname fname). I got this idea from a similar post on Statalist. The problem is now gone.