This is very much worth knowing.
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If none, please make one possible.
Nick
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Jeff Pitblado, StataCorp LP
>
> Ernest Berkhout <[email protected]> asks how to
> control the format of the
> labels generated by the -addlabels- option of -histogram-:
>
> > 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?
> >
...
> Use the -yvarformat()- option from within the
> -addlabopts()- option. For
> example:
>
> . sysuse auto
> . histogram mpg, addlabopts(yvarformat(%4.2f))
>
> results in labels with 2 decimal digits for the labels.
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