Problem with example "smoking"

[Liviayi]

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• [x] Are using the newest release (see here for latest release version number).
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[Liviayi]

I am using Stata IC 14.2. I have trouble running the examples in the help file. After "sysuse smoking", my smoking file actually look like the following. There is no "state" or "year" variable. Do you have any idea why that is the case?

[bquistorff]

SSC changed the smoking.dta file in synth. You can get the original version from my repo here.

[bquistorff]

Oddly, none of the versions/dates in the synth.pkg, synth.ado, synth.sthlp changed. But sometime when I cached the install that is in this repo (2016-08-31) and this issue they swapped the data. It appears that the newer network package uploaded a dataset with the same name and it overwrote the one form synth. I've contacted the SSC about this.

[bquistorff]

The synth package has been updated with the correct dataset and its name is now synth_smoking. I've fixed the help and main README.md