Nikos,
there exists a user written command called -sortrows- (it requires
Stata 9 or better). Assuming that you have access to the web from
within Stata you can download it from ssc by typing -ssc install
sortrows- in your Stata command window. Usage of sortrows is
documented in -help sortrows-. For your problem it could be used inthe
following way: -sortrows v1 v2 v3 v4 v5, replace-
Sebastian
On 2/7/07, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I have a large dataset with 5 variables that contains number in random
order:
v1 v2 v3 v4 v5
28 1 25 22 14
23 2 3 34 39
6 16 8 24 19
3 45 8 1 37
4 23 27 33 10
16 41 33 13 21
...................................
................................
I want to sort them in such a way that the v1[i]<v2[i]<v3[i]<v4[i]<v5[i]
for each i:
1 14 22 25 28
2 3 23 34 39
......
......
..
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Nikos
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