Re: st: sort

["NEYMOTIN, FLORENCE" <neymotin@calmail.berkeley.edu>]

I didn't want to drop anything...so I couldn't use your code.  I ended up just creating variables 
using gsort to keep track of the sorting ordering. In case you're wondering, I wanted to do this 
because I need to make a matrix with the 50th largest value of x1 and the 50th largest value of 
x2, etc., and I'm not trying to match up the variables, just isolate particular values of EACH 
seperate variable.  Thanks!
f

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:19:50 -0500
 Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu> wrote:

> At 02:05 PM 6/28/2005 -0700, NEYMOTIN, FLORENCE wrote:
> > is there a way to sort just ONE variable without changing the rest of the dataset? i.e. I want to 
> > sort EACH variable seperately and leave the rest of the dataset the same...
> > thanks,
> > Florence
> This is one of those questions that makes you curious why somebody would want to do that (but 
> then again I ask lots of questions like that)... How about something like
>
> use dataset
> keep sortvar
> sort sortvar
> ren sortvar sortedvar
> merge using dataset
>
>
>
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