Re: st: encode

[Ron�n Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

David Airey wrote:

> I can work around this question manually, but encode works in ascending
> alphabetical order...is there a way to encode in descending
> alphabetical order? This is because I want descending order using the
> by_option of my graph command.
General solution: define a value label first and force -encode- to use it.

. lab def mysequence 0 "Zimmerman" 1 "Xenakis" 2 "Weill",modify
. encode composer, gen(Composer) lab(mysequence)

This is pretty tedious if you have a lot of categories, though.

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