--- John GIBSON <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a dataset with 600 variables, of which about 500 are numeric
> and 100 are strings. The string variables are spread right throughout
> the dataset.
>
> I want to order the variables to move all of the strings to the end
> and the numeric variables at the beginning, but neither the order,
> aorder or placevar commands give the option of ordering by type of
> variable.
You can use the undocumentend command ds, like in the example below.
For more on -ds- see: -help ds-. (undocumented means that it is not
documented in the paper documentation but there is an electronic help
file, see: -help undocumented-.)
*--------- begin example ---------
sysuse auto, clear
ds , has(type numeric)
order `r(varlist)'
*--------- end example ------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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The Netherlands
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