Austin, Eric,and Kieran,Thank you very much for your replies.
I just want to make it easy when I want to arrange observations to be in descending order of the specified variables and do something else following.
Just like "bys z1 z2: g num=_n" (this is just an example.)
Anyway,thank you for your help.
Kieran, why did the result of "d, short" in your typing show it was sorted by order, not year area?
d, short
Contains data
obs: 17
vars: 3
size: 221 (99.9% of memory free)
Sorted by: order
Note: dataset has changed since last saved
Thank you for any help.
Best regards
Rose
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From: Kieran McCaul <[email protected]>
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Subject: st: RE: Is there a command similar to "bys" if I want to gsort the variables?
Date: 2009-12-4 05:05:13
...
Is this what you want?
input year area
2000 1
2000 1
2000 2
2000 2
2001 1
2001 2
2001 3
2001 3
2001 3
2001 4
2002 2
2002 2
2002 4
2003 3
2003 3
2003 6
2003 6
end
gsort year -area, gen(order)
list
d, short
by order:gen num=_n
list
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Subject: st: Is there a command similar to "bys" if I want to gsort the
variables?
Dear statalists,
Is there a command similar to "bys" if I want to gsort the variables?
For example,
bys year (area): g num=_n
However, I want to gsort the variable of area.
I have tried as followings,
gsort year -area
by year: g num=_n
Is there an easier way to do it just like -bys-?
By the way, when I typed "d,short" after I typed "gsort year -area", the
result was as followings,
Contains data from study.dta
obs: 155
vars: 6 5 Jun 2009 01:45
size: 3,875 (99.9% of memory free)
Sorted by: year
Why the sorted variable did not contain area?
Thank you for any help!
Best regards,
Rose
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