You're correct: the [iw=1] is wrong, and
in fact unnecessary. And I naturally agree with your desire
to do this directly in -tabulate- and fast.
But, internally, that may be dependent
on sorting as well, although I don't have sight
of the code.
bysort catag ined : gen freq = _N
tabdisp catag ined, c(freq) format(%12.0gc) cellw(12)
should reduce the overhead of interpretation
caused by -table- by doing it directly. That's all.
Nick
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Edwin Leuven
> > Try something like
> >
> > bysort catag ined : gen freq = _N
> > tabdisp catag ined [iw=1], c(freq) format(%12.0gc) cellw(12)
>
> tabdisp in my stata (8.2) does not allow weights, but
> sorting 22 million observations and then calling -tabdisp-
> isn't going to
> shorten the time that i am waiting for results
>
> i appreciate that there might be *a* way, but for data
> exploration things
> should be easy, quick and clear
>
> now they are not clear that's why i'd like to appeal to
> statacorp to fix this
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