There is a very good reason why that is not easy, and why I will not
tell you how to do it. Remember that the rows in a dataset represent
the observations/respondents/firms/critters on which you have a number
of measurments (var1, var2, and var3). Think of this as a survey. If
you start sorting one variable but keep the rest of the variables
constant you are basically assigning the answer to question 3 (var3 in
your example) to different persons. In other words you will have
completely ruined your dataset.
-- Maarten
--- Cindy Gao <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to reorder one of my variables (from lowest to highest)
> without changing the order of other variables in my dataset. Is there
> any simply way to do this?
>
> Like, I have now:
> var1 var2 var3 ...
> 3 7 9
> 2 10 3
> 7 8 5
> ..........
>
> And I like to reorder var3 to get:
> var1 var2 var3 ...
> 3 7 3
> 2 10 5
> 7 8 9
> ..........
>
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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