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RE: st: installing hmm, minutes
Alternatively, check out -ntimeofday- and -stimeofday- from
SJ 6-1.
Nick
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Austin Nichols
> Jacob Wegelin --
> -help egenmore- clearly indicates that the command is -egen- not -gen-
> and less clearly that hmm() does not operate on string variables. But
> -h strfun- has all you need.
>
> clear
> input str5 ps
> "9:32"
> "12:01"
> end
> gen h=substr(ps,1,index(ps,":")-1)
> gen m=substr(ps,index(ps,":")+1,.)
> gen elapmin=real(h)*60+real(m)
> li, noo clean
>
> ps h m em
> 9:32 9 32 572
> 12:01 12 01 721
>
> On 3/7/07, Jacob Wegelin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.)
> . gen junk=hmm(prs1)
> Unknown function hmm()
> r(133);
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