Second thoughts:
You may be asking here for a row sort. If so, see
SJ-9-1 pr0046 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata:
Rowwise
(help rowsort, rowranks if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . N.
J. Cox
Q1/09 SJ 9(1):137--157
shows how to exploit functions, egen functions, and Mata
for working rowwise; rowsort and rowranks are introduced
for a detailed discussions. The programs introduced are accessible
regardless of whether you have access to recent issues of the Stata
Journal.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Cox
This is too simplified and could be any number of things.
Renaming or re-ordering your variables may be quite enough to solve your
problem. See, e.g., -order-.
If that doesn't make sense, please explain in more detail what your
problem is.
Nick
[email protected]
[email protected]
I have a quick (and probably simple) question: I would like to "sort" my
dataset over several variables. At the moment my dataset looks like this
(very simplified example):
Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4
1000 3000 2000 500
And should look like this:
Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4
500 1000 2000 3000
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