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Re: st: sorting a string variable, but not alphabetically--retry


From   Joseph Coveney <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: sorting a string variable, but not alphabetically--retry
Date   Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:41:10 +0900

Sorry about the previous posting . . trying to recover from an e-mail 
client catastrophe.

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TEWODAJ MOGUES wrote:

. . . I also considered transposing the
data then ordering the animal variables but I couldn't find a way to 
make stata transpose and use as its new variables the observations of 

-animals- 

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I'm not sure that transposing and ordering is the best way to go for 
800 observations,  but you can transpose string variables with -
sxpose-.

Joseph Coveney

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