reldist error: variable pdf not found

[Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm]

Dear Stata Community,

I am using reldist written by Ben Jann -- thank you Ben for the very large amount of work you put into this.

Here is my question:

I am using version 17.0

I have made sure installed moremata and kdens are installed.

I am attempting to replicate the first example in the reldist help file:

. sysuse nlsw88, clear
(NLSW, 1988 extract)

. reldist pdf wage, by(union) adjust(shape scale) graph
variable pdf not found
r(111);

I tried a similar example command (for a histogram) and the same error:

. reldist histogram wage, by(union) graph
variable histogram not found
r(111);

I am really stuck trying to figure out what to try next.

Any suggestions welcome.

Mark

[Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm]

Dear Stata Community,

I am answering my own question. Many years ago I had written my own relative distribution ado-file, and had named that reldist.ado

So when I thought I was trying to run Ben's reldist, I was actually trying to run my same-named ado-file, and that generated the error

variable pdf not found
r(111);

Sorry about the needless post, but I'll take the opportunity to thank Ben once again for writing a very cool program.

Mark