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st: Turning an observation with start and end dates into a time series


From   Malcolm Wardlaw <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Turning an observation with start and end dates into a time series
Date   Sun, 31 May 2009 15:02:09 -0500

I have a quick question about the best practice for forming a time
series from an observation with a start and end date.  I have a couple
of ways that I do it, either with -reshape- or -expand- and then using
various fills, but they seem too much like inelegant hacks.

Specifically, lets say I have a list of observations that contain:
ID   var1   var2   start   end
1     3        4       6        8
2     4        3       7        9

I want to turn it into the following:
ID   var1   var2   date
1     3        4        6
1     3        4        7
1     3        4        8
2     4        3        7
2     4        3        8
2     4        3        9

Is there a best practice way to do this?
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