Well, - which reorder- tells me there is no such command in Stata, but surely there is an -order- command. Your request is unusual because a -sort- is supposed to affect all vars at the same time so that the observations gathered in the rows of the dataset remain intact. Why do you not just -keep- this one var, -save- it under a different name, -sort- it and then -merge- it back with the old data? I imagine that might also be possible with a -tempfile-...
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cindy Gao
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 3:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: reordering observations
Hello,
I need to reorder one of my variables (from lowest to highest) without changing the order of other variables in my dataset. Is there any simply way to do this?
Like, I have now:
var1 var2 var3 ...
3 7 9
2 10 3
7 8 5
..........
And I like to reorder var3 to get:
var1 var2 var3 ...
3 7 3
2 10 5
7 8 9
..........
Please, this is not the -reorder- command which is already there in Stata, it is something different.
Many thanks!
Cindy
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