This generated various suggestions.
My main thought is that you should never have to write your own sort
programs, bubble sort or other, in Stata.
Even sorting rows can make use of Stata's own sort functionality -- as
in a combination of -reshape- and -sort-, as mentioned by Maarten Buis
-- or as in -rowsort or -sortrows-, as mentioned in part by Martin
Weiss.
-rowsort- is on SSC and was written for Stata 8.
-sortrows- is also on SSC and was written for Stata 9. It makes use of
Mata and in large part supersedes -rowsort-, so long as you have Stata 9
at least.
Nick
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Ashim Kapoor
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. Any
comments anyone ?
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