Re: st: Re: aorder: system limit exceeded

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 08:14 PM 6/30/2005 -0700, Friedrich Huebler wrote:
> Yes, -aorder- works when the offending variables are renamed but I
> would like to keep the original names.
>
> Friedrich
Sounds like some weird esoteric bug in -aorder-.  Until it gets fixed, I 
found that the following works.  What I do is first create vars with the 
problematic names (a step you can skip since you already have those 
vars!).  Then, add _1 to every name.  Use -aorder-.  Then, drop the _1 from 
every name.

. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 Automobile Data)

. ren make hi9dc

. ren mpg hi9dd

. renvars, postfix(_1)

. aorder

. renvars, postdrop(2)

There are a couple of -renvars-, I am using the one by Cox and Weesie from 
http://www.stata.com/stb/stb60.

I'm not sure why this works since I'm not sure what causes the problem in 
the first place, but apparently adding _1 to each var name makes 
problematic names non-problematic while not changing the sort order.

Incidentally, I first tried a postfix of _x - and it didn't work!!!  Nor 
does _a or _z, but _2 does.  Something quite peculiar is going on here, and 
it will take some scrutiny of -aorder- to figure out what it is.

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