Another answer is to check out -qplot- from SSC.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Cox
> The sorted ids can be got with
>
> egen SortedID = group(X ID)
>
> although it's possible that the variant
> -egroup()- in -egenmore- on SSC may be
> closer to what you want.
>
> How does the graph you want with -twoway bar-
> differ from what you can get with
>
> graph bar response, over(id, sort(1))
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Pagan, jose
>
> > I have a variable called ID that goes from 1 through 60, and an X
> > variable that takes the same value within each ID value (I have an
> > unbalanced panel of about 50,000 obs). I want to create a new ID
> > variable that is sorted in ascending or descending order by
> > X so that I
> > can do a sorted twoway bar graph. Or, better byyet, is there
> > a way to sort
> > twoway bar or rspike graphs? Sorted graphs seem to be an
> option for
> > 'graph bar' but not for 'twoway bar'. Thanks for your
> help, Jose.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > ID X SortedID or SortedID
> > 1 4 2 2
> > 1 4 2 2
> > 1 4 2 2
> > 2 7 1 3
> > 3 2 3 1
> > 3 2 3 1
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