Given the last compliment, I should not complain. However, I have to point out that the use of temporary variables during its operation has no bearing on the main point. -fixsort- changes your data and its help file contains a warning on that score. That is why I mentioned -cquantile- first.
But, as Martin implies, if Linn were actually to read the help files indicated, she would discover that no merging is required.
Nick
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Martin Weiss
Look under the hood of -ssc d fixsort- (which seems to do exactly what you
want), and you see that it also uses temps: -tempvar-s and -h clonevar- from
official Stata instead of -tempfile-s. It is an extremely convenient command
in the rare cases where users want what you seem to be asking for...
Linn Renée Naper
Thanks, I will.
Right know I'm not sure if I need it, but interesting to look into anyway I
think.
It is probably possible to do this in several steps using merge, new files
etc,
but that's not how I want to do it if I can do it with a "simple" command.
Nick Cox
Linn's statement is an understatement. This kind of allocation is strong
stuff. See -cquantile- and -fixsort- on SSC for what may be answers to your question, and always keep copies of the data as they are now.
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