USORT: Stata module to perform locale-based ascending and descending sort that supports conditional statements, observation ranges, and user-defined handling of substrings and missing values

Ilya Bolotov

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: This program is a byable sort command, which allows a) custom first and last substrings, including system (.) and all remaining missing values, b) gsort-like syntax for the ascending and descending order, as well as c) conditional [if] and range [in] sorting. The program is built around the Stata sort command and adds the data-sorted flag (sorted by) to the dataset if all rows are selected and applies Mata File-URL: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/collate() otherwise. Sorting large datasets might be taxing on machine memory or disk space.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 14
Keywords: sort; conditional; descending order (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-10-17, Revised 2024-11-04
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install usort". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/u/usort.sthlp help file (text/plain)

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