SORTOBS: sort observations into a specified order

• Current version: 1.1 16sep2010
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Updates:

• September 16, 2010
  • Added before() and after() options

Install:

Type which sortobs at the Stata prompt to determine which version you have installed. To install the most recent version of sortobs, copy/paste the following line of code:

net install sortobs, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reifjulian/sortobs/master") replace

To install the version that was uploaded to SSC, copy/paste the following line of code:

ssc install sortobs, replace

These two versions are typically synced, but occasionally the SSC version may be slightly out of date.

Description:

sortobs is a Stata command that sorts observations into an order specified by the user.

For more details, see the Stata help file included in this package.

Author:

Julian Reif
University of Illinois
jreif@illinois.edu