*! version 2.9.0 28mar2017

Title

fsort -- Sort by categorical variables

Syntax

fsort
varlist
[, verbose]

not implemented:
fsort
varlist
[if] [in]

not implemented:
fsort
[+|-]
varname
[[+|-]
varname ...]

Description

fsort is an alternative to sort and gsort, with some differences:

1) It expects the variables to represent categories (it would be quite slow to use it to sort a normal random variable)

2) varlist cannot have both string and numeric variables

3) The sort is always stable

3) It is is faster than sort only with large datasets (above 200k obs.)

4) (wip) It allows if and in options

Author

Sergio Correia

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, USA

sergio.correia@gmail.com

More Information

To report bugs, contribute, ask for help, etc. please see the project URL in Github:

https://github.com/sergiocorreia/ftools