error running program on a linux server

[irinahoroi]

Preliminaries

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Expected behavior and actual behavior

Ive installed the packages on my local and it works great. But now I've moved to working on a linux server and i get the following error that I have traced out (this is running the 1st smoking.dta example listed in the help documentation):

" = calc_RMSPE , i_start(20) i_end(31) local(post_rmspe)
    ------------------------------------------------------ end synth_wrapper ---
  - if _rc==1 error 1
  - if _rc{
  - di as err "Error estimating treatment effect for unit `tr_unit'"
  = di as err "Error estimating treatment effect for unit 3"
Error estimating treatment effect for unit 3
  - error _rc
unrecognized command
    }
    if `num_rep'>5 _sr_print_dots `g' `num_rep'
    if `training_propr'>0{
    calc_RMSPE , i_start(`=`ntraining'+1') i_end(`=`ntraining'+`nvalidation'') l
> ocal(val_rmspe)
    local pfile_post "(`val_rmspe')"
    }
    post `phandle' (`n') (`e(pre_rmspe)') (`e(post_rmspe)') `pfile_post'
    _sr_add_keepfile_to_agg, keep(`ind_file') aggfile(`agg_file') tper_var(`tper
> _var') tper(`tper') unit(`tr_unit') depvar(`depvar') pre_rmspe(`e(pre_rmspe)')
>  post_rmspe(`e(post_rmspe)')
    restore
    }
  ------------------------------------------------------- end _sr_do_work_tr ---
----------------------------------------------------------- end synth_runner ---
r(199);

The synth program works on its own.

Steps to reproduce the problem

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System information

• Stata version and flavor (e.g. v14 MP): v14 MP
• OS type and version (e.g. Windows 10): linux server
• synth_runner version: 12

[bquistorff]

The tracedepth on that log isn't deep enough to tell what caused the error. Can you provide a minimal, complete, and verifiable example using public data?

[bquistorff]

A user reported to me offline that an issue with install on Linux is that all file names are installed as lowercase so calc_RMSPE.ado because calc_rmspe.ado and all calls to calc_RMSPE failed. I think this was the issue there. I've made all commands lowercase, fixing this issue. Thanks to user who helped me offline!

[BaileyIngraham]

Hello,

I'm getting the same error on a linux server using the latest version of the synth package from the https://ideas.repec.org/ website and version 16.1 of Stata. Was this correction of making all commands lowercase carried forward to the most recent package?

Thanks,

[bquistorff]

Please try with the latest version on GitHub (see install on main page).