Re: st: Issue on sorting on categorical variables

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

If you still have the variable -id- and have not changed it  then such  
commands should be repeatable; otherwise things are not in your favour.

Nick


<Laura.Grigolon@econ.kuleuven.be> wrote:

> I have an issue about sorting on categorical variables.
> I sorted on a variable that does not have unique values for every  
> observation in the data and subsequently I referred to the order  
> within the group by generating a variable id = _n. I then used the  
> id number to replace values (such as: replace variable = 10 if  
> id==100).
> I realize that my approach is wrong, as explained in the FAQ (http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/sort.html 
> ), since Stata does not keep the same ordering. However, since I  
> implemented a huge amount of modifications, I was wondering if there  
> is a way to be able to run the do file again and obtain the same  
> results.
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