sort.data Function (GPL)

Syntax

sort.data()

Description

Sorts the categorical values in the order they appear in the data.

Note: If the data are pre-aggregated (for example, by using a statistic function in the IBM® SPSS® Statistics GGRAPH command), this function will not work as expected because the categorical values may be sorted during aggregation. Therefore, the GPL no longer knows the order in which the categorical values appeared in the original data.

Examples

Figure 1. Example: Sorting the categories

SCALE: cat(dim(1), sort.data())