Error 3499 when using KHB

[Alison Crowley]

Hi all. I'm using restricted data in Stata 17 via a remote desktop. I've installed the khb package from the bocode files on the remote desktop. Every time I try to run a khb model I get the following error:

<istmt>: 3499 khb() not found

When I run the exact same command on the unrestricted version of the data on my own pc, it runs without any problems. Any idea what's going on?

[Nick Cox]

Your code fails, I guess, because Stata can't see all the files in the package.

net describe khb, from(http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/k)

lists the files.

[William Lisowski]

As someone who occasionally, and somewhat reluctantly, works remotely in a secure enclave accessed via remote desktop, when I need access to software from SSC, I install it onto my laptop from the network, then gather up the files and have them uploaded to my account, just as I do programs and data. From there, I place them into either the same directory as the programs that are going to use them, or into my Stata PERSONAL directory.

The net describe command tells us there are 6 files that need to be installed

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (type net install khb)
      khb.ado
      khbtab.ado
      ../l/lkhb.mata
      ../l/lkhb.mlib
      khb.sthlp
      khbtab.sthlp

The ado and sthlp files would be installed into the k subdirectory of the Stata PLUS directory, and the mata and mlib files would be be installed into the l subdirectory of the Stata PLUS directory.

Here's an example showing what happens with a network install on my laptop running macOS.

. net install khb, from(http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/k)
checking khb consistency and verifying not already installed...
installing into /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/plus/...
installation complete.

. sysdir
   STATA:  /Applications/Stata/
    BASE:  /Applications/Stata/ado/base/
    SITE:  /Applications/Stata/ado/site/
    PLUS:  /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/plus/
PERSONAL:  /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/Stata/ado/personal/
OLDPLACE:  ~/ado/

. dir "`c(sysdir_plus)'k/khb*"

-rw-r--r--  1 lisowskiw  staff  13726 Jan 18 16:58 /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/
> Stata/ado/plus/k/khb.ado
-rw-r--r--  1 lisowskiw  staff  12420 Jan 18 16:58 /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/
> Stata/ado/plus/k/khb.sthlp
-rw-r--r--  1 lisowskiw  staff   3502 Jan 18 16:58 /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/
> Stata/ado/plus/k/khbtab.ado
-rw-r--r--  1 lisowskiw  staff   6820 Jan 18 16:58 /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/
> Stata/ado/plus/k/khbtab.sthlp

. dir "`c(sysdir_plus)'l/lkhb*"

-rw-r--r--  1 lisowskiw  staff   9816 Jan 18 16:58 /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/
> Stata/ado/plus/l/lkhb.mata
-rw-r--r--  1 lisowskiw  staff  93272 Jan 18 16:58 /Users/lisowskiw/Library/Application Support/
> Stata/ado/plus/l/lkhb.mlib

.

And those are the files I would copy and ask to have loaded into my remote account.

[Alison Crowley]

Thank you both. I was able to separately load khbtab.ado and lkhb.mata from the bocode files and a test command worked without problems.