Re: st: Interactions between tsset and sort

[Gordon Hughes <G.A.Hughes@ed.ac.uk>]

Thank you for both suggestions.  I will consider both of them.  Two remarks:

A.  The manual entry for xtset states that

"One of the syntaxes of tsset is tsset panelvar timevar, which is 
identical to one of xtset's syntaxes, namely, xtset panelvar 
timevar.  Here they are in fact the same command ..."

I think that the --xtset-- behaviour of not sorting the data may only 
apply when you use --xtset panelvar-- which is not sufficient for my 
purpose as I need to identify the time variable as well.  I had taken 
the manual literally, but I may have misinterpreted it.

B.  Writing a modified version of tsset (xtset) - e.g. spatset - 
would offer the possibility of setting data up for other kinds of 
spatial analysis, so it would be interesting to find out what 
features potential users might regards as being useful.

Gordon Hughes
g.a.hughes@ed.ac.uk

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