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| From | Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu> |
| To | <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: how to access Stata's record of the variable data is sorted on |
| Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:35:45 -0500 |
On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> . mata :
> : which = "foreign"
> : which == sprintf("`: sortedby'")
This will work interactively, but not in a function, since the expansion will occur at compile time instead of runtime. Alternatives that work inside a function include:
printf(st_macroexpand("`" + ":sortedby" + "'"))
or
stata("des, varl", 1)
printf(st_global("r(sortlist)"))
and possibly others that I don't know about. Seems odd that the current sort order is not available via c()...
-- Phil
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