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st: RE: installing hmm, minutes
The help for -egenmore- tells you the answer.
These are -egen- functions, not functions,
and can only be used with -egen-. So try -egen-
not -generate-.
Nick
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Jacob Wegelin
> I am trying to convert a string variable that takes on values such as
>
> 9:32
>
> 12:01
>
> (i.e., sometimes it contains 3 and sometimes 4 digits)
>
> into a numeric variable representing the time of day. It appears that
> the minutes() function would do this.
>
> What does one have to do to obtain the hmm() and minutes()
> functions? Per
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-01/msg00592.html
> I installed
> egenmore but this does not seem to do the trick. (I have
> Stata 9.2 on a
> PC.)
>
> . ssc install egenmore
> checking egenmore consistency and verifying not already installed...
> installing into c:\ado\plus\...
> installation complete.
>
> . gen junk=hmm(prs1)
> Unknown function hmm()
> r(133);
>
> . gen junk=minutes(prs1)
> Unknown function minutes()
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