Downloading the Clarify Package

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to install the Clarify Package from Gary King's website, and the following is the response that I receive. I am assuming that his website is experiencing any problem, but cannot tell for sure. Does anyone know any other website from where I can access this package?

net from http://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/
file http://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/stata.toc not found
server says file temporarily redirected to https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/stata.toc
http://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).
r(601);

.
. net install clarify
file http://www.stata.com/clarify.pkg not found
could not load clarify.pkg from http://www.stata.com/
r(601);

[Richard Williams]

Just change your first command to

net from https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/

When Notre Dame switched from http to https, it caused all sorts of grief for my Stata files and programs. A web browser will just switch from http to https, but Stata won't.

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Thank you, Richard. Still, it seems to not working. Here's the message that I receive:

net from https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/
I/O error
https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).

current site is still http://www.stata.com/
r(691);

[Dick Campbell]

I attempted to do this and got the following response, which appears to be what you want.

net from https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify
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https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/
Clarify: Software to Interpret and Present Statistical Results
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Michael Tomz         Jason Wittenberg          Gary King
Stanford Univ.   Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison   Harvard Univ.


To install Clarify, type net install clarify
To download documentation to your working directory, type net get clarify
For a brief description of Clarify, type net describe clarify

PACKAGES you could -net describe-:
    clarify           Software to Interpret and Present Statistical Results

I was then able to successfully install the package

. net install clarify
checking clarify consistency and verifying not already installed...
installing into c:\ado\plus\...
installation complete.

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Thank you, Richard! I copied and pasted your command and again I received:

net from https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify
I/O error
https://gking.harvard.edu/clarify/ either
1) is not a valid URL, or
2) could not be contacted, or
3) is not a Stata download site (has no stata.toc file).
r(691);

I just cannot understand why...

[Dick Campbell]

Well all I can say is that options 1 and 3 above are clearly not the case because for (1) the url works for me and for (3) Stata was able to find a Stata toc file and download the package. That leaves (2). Have you tried to contact that URL outside Stata? Does your system have some constraint on linking to outside sites? If you are on a network I'd suggest you talk to your system admin.

[Richard Williams]

Can you install anything from anywhere?

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Richard, yes I can. I just installed more_clarify from: http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/m/.

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Richard Campbell, I am on a personal laptop, and I don't know to have any constrains to access other URLs. I have accessed Gary King's URL outside Stata as well. Also, I have installed many other Stata packages. Actually, I just managed to performed my marginal effects work using Stata commands, but I still wanted to learn and use clarify.

[Ridvan Peshkopia]

Hi Stata community. I am trying to open a .dta dataset on which I have been working for the last four months (and quite a few hours ago as well). Now could not open it, and tells me that file is "not Stata format." Meanwhile, I am quite sure that I have not changed the dataset format (I only use Stata for statistical analysis and no other format). Any idea what might have happened to my dataset file and how to open it? Thanks in advance.

[Richard Williams]

Hi Ridvan. I would start a new topic rather than add on to an old totally unrelated one.

[Beau Meche]

Thank you Richard Campbell, your method worked for me.

Gratefully - a new Stata user working on an academic paper replication