I seem to remember a previous thread pointing
to the absence of -mlabformat()-.
I tried generating a _string_ variable to use under
-addlabopts()- in -histogram-, but got nowhere.
However, this convoluted work-around may be
of interest.
bysort rep78 : gen count = _N
count if rep78 < .
gen density = count / r(N)
gen sdensity = string(density, "%4.3f")
twoway bar density rep78, bstyle(histogram) ||
scatter density rep78, ms(none) mlabel(sdensity) mlabpos(12)
OR
twoway histogram rep78, discrete ||
scatter density rep78, ms(none) mlabel(sdensity) mlabpos(12)
Nick
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Ernest Berkhout
> is there a possibility to format the labels that can be
> stuck on the bars
> of a histogram, just as it can be done with a bar-graph?
>
> To illuminate: in a bar-graph one can label a categorie of
> bars with the
> option:
> -blabel(bar, position(outside) format(%3.1f))-
>
> so the labels (in this case, percentages of a distribution)
> are formatted
> as numbers with only one decimal digit.
> Unfortunately something similar doesn't seem to be possible with
> histograms. I only get as far as:
>
> -histogram dag, discrete width(1) start(1) percent
> addlabels addlabopts(
> mlabsize(vsmall))-
>
> and then there is no possibility to format the labels. This
> results in
> rather ugly labeling, with for some labels 2 decimal digits
> and for others
> 3 dec.digits!
>
> Am I just ignorant, or is it realy impossible to do this?
> (and if so, what
> would be the rationale behind the current way of labeling ?)
>
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