Stata: wbopendata temp file error r(601) and solution // Shel's Blog

Recently I tried wbopendata(version 9.0) with Stata(Stata/SE 12.0 for Windows (32-bit), Revision 13 Oct 2011), but got an error(601), saying that an temp file is missing.

Short Solution:

upate your Stata to latest version.

Details

By running set trace on, we can view the very steps running this command. In my environment and test arguments, the error occurs here:

  - if ("`indicator'" != "") {
  = if ("" != "") {
    capture : copy "`servername'/`language'/countries/`country2'/`parameter'format=csv" `temp'
    }
  - insheet using `temp', `clear' name
  = insheet using C:\Users\FRANCI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_01000001.tmp,  name
file C:\Users\FRANCI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\ST_01000001.tmp not found

Try the copy command, it failed to download the data file. So the tmp file does not exist, and of course the following insheet reports file missing error.

copy is a build-in function, so I updated my Stata to latest version(Revision 23 Jan 2014), and try wbopendata again, it works well. Probably the copy command is the reason, but as it is a built-in function, I don’t know how to dig into it.

Hope this help.