Re: st: sorting with tabdisp

[Thomas <tpt21@cam.ac.uk>]

Dear Maarten,

thanks but I guess I expressed myself badly:

In

tabdisp name yr, cellvar(var)

I want to order name (i.e. the rows) according to the values
of cellvar in the first column.

Thanks,

thomas



Maarten buis wrote:
> --- Thomas <tpt21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>   
> > given the following table:
> >
> > tabdisp name yr, cellvar(var)
> >
> > I would like to sort the data in the cells on the
> > first column, i.e. the first year in my panel.
> >     
> If I understand you correctly than you want the columns in the example
> below to be in order (1 2 3 4 5 .). As you can see -tabdisp- already
> does that. One possible reason why -tabdisp- may appear not to do so is
> when value labels are attached to the values of yr (rep78 in the
> example below) and the order of the values is not the same as the
> "order" of the value labels. Stata looks at the values and displays the
> labels, so the categories appear out of order. If this is the case you
> can take a look at the -axis()- function in the -egenmore- package
> downloadable from -ssc-.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
> *--------- begin example -------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> contract foreign rep78
> tabdisp foreign rep78, cellvar(_freq)
> *--------- end example ---------------
> (For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
>
>
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