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RE: st: RE: Help with data management


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: RE: Help with data management
Date   Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:03:15 +0100

As a footnote to this: 

Katia's error message on trying to use a function -hms()- indicated to me that she was trying to use an -egen- function with -generate-. 

She could have been trying to use a Stata 10 function -hms()- within an earlier version of Stata. (Else why did she get an error message?) 

In Stata 10, users should note that the official function -hms()- differs from the user-written -egen- function -hms()-, and not just in so far as you can use the latter only with -egen-. 

In Stata 10 you can do this, if you have installed -egenmore- from SSC: 

. set obs 1
obs was 0, now 1

. gen seven = 7

. gen thirty = 30

. gen fifty = 50

. egen hms_egen = hms(seven thirty fifty)

. gen double hms_gen = hms(seven, thirty, fifty)

. l

     +----------------------------------------------+
     | seven   thirty   fifty   hms_egen    hms_gen |
     |----------------------------------------------|
  1. |     7       30      50      27050   27050000 |
     +----------------------------------------------+

The result of -egen, hms()- is in seconds. The result of the function -hms()- is in milliseconds. 




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