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RE: st: RE: changing observations under one variable
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: RE: changing observations under one variable
Date
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:44:12 +0100
Your reply to mine arrived before your reply to Tashi's. Similarly I have replied to that post.
Nick
[email protected]
Rudy Hover
Nick I read your and Tashi's reply and answered your questions. What else do you need to know about the data?
In stata it looks like
date
29jan1999
26feb1999
31mar1999
..
I need to replace the observations as they now contain data (the day) which I don't want it to contain.
It should look like
date
199901
199902
199903
..
On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
> Please read my reply as well as Tashi's and pay attention to the questions asked. You are not telling us enough about your data. Alternatively, try reading the help for -format- to see what Tashi meant.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Rudy Hover
>
> Thank you for the reply tashi
>
> what do you mean with try format %tdCCYYdd ?
> How can I replace the observations as I meant?
>
> On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:14 PM, tashi lama wrote:
>
>> Try format %tdCCYYdd .
>
> From: [email protected]
>
>>> The word format means so many things! "29jan1999" is not a format in the sense of -format-. It might the result of setting a particular format?
>>>
>>> Is -date- a string variable? Is it a numeric variable with a date format assigned.
>>>
>>> Do you want another string variable? Do you want a numeric variable with a specified display -format-?
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>> Rudy Hover
>>>
>>> I have one variable called 'date' with observations in the format '29jan1999' until '19dec2006', so the last working day of the month, the month and then the year. I want to change this to the format '199901' or '200612', so I don't need the day anymore, only the year and then the month. Could you help me how to replace?
>>>
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