Re: st: reordering observations

[David Airey <david.airey@Vanderbilt.Edu>]

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If merge is not your thing, export to Microsoft Excel or any  
spreadsheet. Sort just that column. Import to Stata.

:)


On Aug 1, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Cindy Gao wrote:


> Hello,
>
> 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
> ..........
>
> Please, this is not the -reorder- command which is already there in  
> Stata, it is something different.
>
> Many thanks!
> Cindy
>
>
>
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