I'm trying to use the egenmore function, minutes, but keep on getting an
error message. I'm using version 8 and have alredy checked for an update to
egenmore.
. clear
. set obs 5
obs was 0, now 5
. gen J="00:15"
. li J
+-------+
| J |
|-------|
1. | 00:15 |
2. | 00:15 |
3. | 00:15 |
4. | 00:15 |
5. | 00:15 |
+-------+
. egen Jn=seconds(J)
problematic characters in J
r(459);
I get the same error with seconds:
. clear
. set obs 5
obs was 0, now 5
. gen J="01:15:15"
. li J
+----------+
| J |
|----------|
1. | 01:15:15 |
2. | 01:15:15 |
3. | 01:15:15 |
4. | 01:15:15 |
5. | 01:15:15 |
+----------+
. egen Jn=seconds(J)
problematic characters in J
r(459);
What's going on here? Am I misunderstanding something?
Cheers,
Stephen
Stephen Soldz
Director, Center for Research, Evaluation, and Program Development
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
1581 Beacon St.
Brookline, MA 02446
[email protected]
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