I think Maarten did understand and did answer your question. The answer
is that you can't do this directly in -tabdisp-, so you have to resort
to trickery. Before calling -tabdisp-, you must generate a variable to
do the job.
You must get something that looks like -name- in your table, but is
really something else. As Maarten said, the -egen- function -axis()-
from
-egenmore- on SSC is one way to do this. The dopey name arises from one
use, for generating variables to serve as graph axes.
Nick
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Thomas
Dear Maarten,
thanks but I guess I expressed myself badly:
In
tabdisp name yr, cellvar(var)
I want to order name (i.e. the rows) according to the values
of cellvar in the first column.
Maarten buis wrote:
> --- Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> given the following table:
>>
>> tabdisp name yr, cellvar(var)
>>
>> I would like to sort the data in the cells on the
>> first column, i.e. the first year in my panel.
>>
>
> If I understand you correctly than you want the columns in the example
> below to be in order (1 2 3 4 5 .). As you can see -tabdisp- already
> does that. One possible reason why -tabdisp- may appear not to do so
is
> when value labels are attached to the values of yr (rep78 in the
> example below) and the order of the values is not the same as the
> "order" of the value labels. Stata looks at the values and displays
the
> labels, so the categories appear out of order. If this is the case you
> can take a look at the -axis()- function in the -egenmore- package
> downloadable from -ssc-.
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