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Re: st: date command error?
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: date command error?
Date
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:29:12 +0000
For the record, note also
1. -date()- is a function, not a command. Stata is strict on the
difference: commands and functions work differently and are documented
separately.
2. The effect of -date()- with Steven's syntax and Steven's data would
be a numeric variable that is all missing. String variables can be
empty; numeric variables will be missing whenever Stata can't produce
non-missing values.
Nick
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Ryan Kessler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Oops --- wrong link. Here is the correct one -->
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/string_dates.htm
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Ryan Kessler
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> You need to deal with your two-digit years. For example:
>>
>> input str25 datestr
>> "01/15/96"
>> "01/15/1996"
>> "01/15/2013"
>> "01/15/13"
>> end
>>
>> gen dates = date(datestr, "MDY", 2013)
>> format dates %td
>>
>> Documentation here -->
>> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-01/msg00548.html
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Steven Archambault
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am running Stata 12 on a Mac, and am having trouble with the date command.
>>>
>>> My datestr values are in the format MM/DD/YY
>>>
>>> I am trying to convert these to a date format using
>>>
>>> gen dates=date(datestr, "MDY")
>>>
>>> dates is generated, but its an empty column. Is there something I'm missing?
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