--- Ashim Kapoor <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a simple code to write.
>
> I have 6 variables v1, v2 , v3, v4 ,v5 , v6.
>
> I want to sort "according to each observation". That is , in the end
> for each i I want , v1[i] < = v2[i] <=... v6[i].
>
> So I wrote a simple bubble for each row and then loop from 1 to _N.
>
> Now the problem is that this works but it's VERY VERY slow.
This could be done using a combinatin of -reshape- and -by-, like in
the example below. This should be faster.
*--------------- begin example ---------------
// create some random data
drop _all
set obs 10
forvalues i = 1/3 {
gen v`i' = floor(10*uniform())
}
// do the sort
list
gen i = _n
reshape long v, i(i) j(var)
drop var
gen v2 = -v /*to sort from highest to lowest*/
bys i (v2): gen var = _n
drop v2
reshape wide v, i(i) j(var)
drop i
list
*----------------- 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 )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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