Zang Hailing wrote:
> I am trying to insert new observations into the existing data file. For
> example, the trading days are only weekdays, namely Monday through Friday.
> But I also wish to list Sat and Sun in the data file. (So only date appears,
> other columns will be blank because of no data.)
>
> for example:
> 08/01/2001 --Wed
> 08/02/2001 --Thu
> 08/03/2001 --Fri
> 08/05/2001 --Mon
>
> I wish to have 08/04/2001 and 08/05/2001 appears to be able to merge with
> other data sets. How can I do that?
If you convert your date variable to a Stata elapsed date, then you can
-tsset- your data. Once the data has been -tsset-, you can use -tsfill-; it
will insert observations into the dataset for all of the gaps in the time
series.
Allen McDowell
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