Thanks Nick and all answered my thread. I am testing fre, but also
will look at the last ones mentioned by Nick!
2009/3/19 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
> -fre- is excellent for this and related problems.
>
> But there are other solutions too which have been around for some time.
>
> -modes- from SJ does what Rodrigo wants. So would -groups- from SSC.
>
> -groups- has one advantage over -modes- or -fre-: it extends to frequencies of two or more variables considered jointly.
>
> Nick
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> Martin Weiss
>
> One could think of constructs with the -in- qualifier here, but Maarten`s answer is unbeatable: -ssc d fre- takes care of both ordering and subsetting the values...
>
> Rodrigo Briceño
>
>> Thanks Maarten and Martin. To clarify my opaque need to Martin what I
>> need is that the table produced only shows the first ten values (the
>> highest 10 values or any other small figure) to avoid having really
>> long tables of results and further editing (erasing anything below the
>> 10th greatest value). It is more clear now?
>>
>> 2009/3/18 Maarten buis <[email protected]>:
>> >
>> > --- Rodrigo Briceno wrote:
>> >> I recently discovered the use of the command
>> >> tab with the option sort in order to get an ordered table of
>> >> frequencies (descendant order).
>> >> I am wondering if I can use an additional option in order to show only
>> >> some specific set of results, since some categories on my tables are
>> >> really long (more than 256 categories in one case).
>> >> Also I have the doubt if tab could be combined with an option in order
>> >> to get ascendant frequencies.
>> >
>> > Yes, see -ssc describe fre- for Ben Jann's -fre- package.
>> >
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