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Main Authors: Correia, Sergio, Seay, Matthew P.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11058
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  • The ability to conduct reproducible research in Stata is often limited by the lack of version control for community-contributed packages. This article introduces the require command, a tool designed to ensure Stata package dependencies are compatible across users and computer systems. Given a list of Stata packages, require verifies that each package is installed, checks for a minimum or exact version or package release date, and optionally installs the package if prompted by the researcher.