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Re: st: unsort while merging
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: unsort while merging
Date
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:57:54 +0200
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:22 PM, tashi lama wrote:
> Stata sorts the variable after merging. I have a situation where I want to keep it the way it is(unsorted) after merge.
Here is one way to achieve this:
use dataset1, clear
gen sortid = _n
merge m:1 id using dataset2, keep(match)
sort sortid
drop sortid
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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