> Try something like
>
> bysort catag ined : gen freq = _N
> tabdisp catag ined [iw=1], c(freq) format(%12.0gc) cellw(12)
tabdisp in my stata (8.2) does not allow weights, but
sorting 22 million observations and then calling -tabdisp- isn't going to
shorten the time that i am waiting for results
i appreciate that there might be *a* way, but for data exploration things
should be easy, quick and clear
now they are not clear that's why i'd like to appeal to statacorp to fix
this
thanks, edwin
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Edwin Leuven
>
> > > Instead of -tabulate-, use -table-.
> >
> > thanks for the suggestion, i tried it as follows
> >
> > . table catag ined, format(%12.0gc) cellwidth(12)
> >
> > but it doesn't work; your solution seems to depend on iweight
> >
> > even if it had worked, it would have solved the
> > display bug of -tabulate- at a cost: where my -tabulate- took 4
> > seconds the -table- took 193.
> >
> > since i use -tabulate- to peruse the data from different angles i
> > can't afford to wait 3 minutes for every crosstab
> >
> > perhaps the good people at statacorp could fix -tabulate-'s
> > display of
> > (large) numbers?
> >
> > thanks nick for looking into this.
>
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