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Re: st: RE: RE: Sorting rows in Mata
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: RE: Sorting rows in Mata
Date
Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:09:28 +0000
You're correct; this is not what you want. Sorry about that.
Nick
[email protected]
On 24 February 2014 18:05, Simone Angioloni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> I did it, but it does not work.
>
> mymat=(0,3,2,4\3,0,1,6\2,1,0,5\4,6,5,0)
> sort(mymat', 1)'
>
> And this is the output:
> 1 2 3 4
> +-----------------+
> 1 | 0 2 3 4 |
> 2 | 3 1 0 6 |
> 3 | 2 0 1 5 |
> 4 | 4 5 6 0 |
> +-----------------+
>
> I do not need to sort only the first row, but all the rows like this:
> 1 2 3 4
> +-----------------+
> 1 | 0 2 3 4 |
> 2 | 0 1 3 6 |
> 3 | 0 1 2 5 |
> 4 | 0 4 5 6 |
> +-----------------+
>
> Thanks.
>
> Simone
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 12:54 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: RE: Sorting rows in Mata
>
> The -sort()- function (not command) can do this for you, with
> transposes before and after:
>
> : sort(mymat', 1)'
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Simone Angioloni
>
>> I knew this command, but it seems not perfectly fit.
>>
>> My matrix is like this:
>>
>> mymat=(0,3,2,4\3,0,1,6\2,1,0,5\4,6,5,0)
>>
>> and I need something like:
>>
>> 0,2,3,4
>> 0,1,3,6
>> 0,1,2,5
>> 0,4,5,6
>
> Andrew Maurer
>
>> Is mata's sort() function what you're looking for? Try "help mata sort()"
>>
>> Eg:
>> mata
>> mymat = (3 \ 1 \ 4 \ 2), (6 \ 7 \ 8 \ 9)
>> mymat
>> sort(mymat,1)
>> end
>
> Simone Angioloni
>
>> Is there a canned command to sort rows in ascending order in Mata without exporting the matrix to Stata and using the rowsort()?
>>
>> I need to do that in Mata because the marix is very large (more than 1000 by 1000) and once I export the matrix to Stata I have rounding errors that make the matrix slightly different from the original.
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