The essence of Florence's problem is that two (or more) variables
be sorted together. How would this -egen- function be used
to achieve that?
Nick
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philippe van kerm
> This query has been answered yesterday, but for the record, let me add
> that this is what _gclsort does. _gclsort is available from the SSC
> archive (ssc install _gclsort).
>
> sysuse auto
> egen price2 = clsort(price)
NEYMOTIN, FLORENCE
> > 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...
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