runmlwin in the Secure Data Service

[Eagg1986]

Hi there,
I am using MLwiN in the Secure Data environment but I am having trouble using runmlwin. I have specified the MLwiN file path using the 'global MLwiN_path' command but when I try to use the runmlwin command I receive the error message 'unrecognized command: runmlwin’. I'm not sure why this is the case as MLwiN is installed. Could it be because this is a fairly old (v2.2) version of MLwiN? I realise that you may be unfamiliar with the SDS setup but I'm just trying to understand what the most likely problem is.

Many thanks,
Elisabeth

[ChrisCharlton]

It sounds as if runmlwin is not properly installed. Did you install it with the command:

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ssc install runmlwin

or by copying the ado files from another machine?

If you enter the command:

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which runmlwin

into Stata it should tell you whether the command is somewhere that it can find it.

Once you have the command installed you will also need a fairly up to date version of MLwiN (currently v2.25 is the lowest allowed version and v2.28 is the lowest recommended version).

[Eagg1986]

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply. I had assumed that runmlwin was already installed in the secure environment but it looks like it's not, and I don't have the privileges to do so myself. I'll ask the data holders to install it and upgrade to a newer version of MLwiN and hopefully that will do the trick.
Thanks again,
Elisabeth