There it is right there in the -sort- help file where
I should have been able to find it myself. Thanks!
The original problem I had with -swor-, I see, was due
to the use of -by- with multiple applications of
-swor- to the same data. If you wanted to use -swor-
and avoid the problem, you could edit swor.ado to add
the stable option to the sort performed within the ado
file.
--- Richard Williams <[email protected]>
wrote:
> At 08:39 AM 12/20/2004 -0800, Gabriel Demombynes
> wrote:
> >use temp, clear
> >sort cluster
> >li
> >
> >This produces different results each time. Although
> >the dataset is sorted by cluster each time, the
> order
> >within cluster is different.
> >
> >Is this a general phenomenon, or is this somehow
> >particular to my data? This is an older dataset,
> with
> >variables originally created in version 6.
>
> Add the -stable- option to sort. See -help sort-
>
>
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