Re: st: gsort issue

["Brian P. Poi" <bpoi@stata.com>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Jeph Herrin wrote:

> I'm with Fred & Nick. After using Stata exclusively for
> over a decade, I still find that my intuition about how
> Stata will treat a missing value to come short suprisingly
> often, and this is another example of where it doesn't do
> what I would think.
And Nick Cox wrote:

> > But -- to the point -- while what Brian says is a fair answer it seems to 
> > me to point to a missing option on -gsort-. 
> > -reallydowantmissingfirst- would not be very Stataish as a name, but Fred 
> > Wolfe's want and need seemed very reasonable to me.
We will look into implementing an option to -gsort- to put missing values 
first with ascending sorts.

   -- Brian Poi
      bpoi@stata.com



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