On -blabel()-: try the principle that your punishment
is that you got precisely what you asked for.
That is, -blabel()- labels _individual_ bars. You
want to label groups of bars. The presumption in
-graph bar- appears to be that the natural place to
do that is via text outside the category axis, and on the whole
I agree with that presumption. More importantly, -graph bar-
does not offer a kind of group label option, which
appears to be what you want.
Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Finne H�kon
> Sent: 13 September 2004 12:11
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: blabel(group) for bar graphs
>
>
> Thanks, Nick -
>
> it's amazing what the trained eye can do with Stata's
> graphing capabilities and your solution responds precisely to
> the way I formulated the question for vertical bar charts.
> With a little tweaking, I can even accommodate it for
> stacking the bars in many cases and orient the bars
> horizontally (which was my original point of departure).
> Nevertheless, the -blabel(group)- behavior when more than one
> yvar is involved still strikes me as odd.
>
> -- H�kon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 13. september 2004 11:51
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: blabel(group) for bar graphs
>
>
> If -graph bar- doesn't show the flexibility you want
> one option is to knit your own with -twoway bar-.
>
> Here is a long way round:
>
> collapse (mean) headroom trunk, by(foreign)
> gen foreign1 = foreign - 0.1
> gen foreign2 = foreign + 0.1
> gen max = max(headroom, trunk)
> twoway bar headroom foreign1 , barwidth(0.2)
> || bar trunk foreign2 , barwidth(0.2)
> || scatter max foreign , ms(none) mlabel(foreign)
> mlabpos(12) xla(none)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> H�kon Finne
>
> > Thanks for the suggestion, Phil; but no; I actually want the
> > group name and not the variable name (because I later want to
> > remove the label on the category axis due to space
> > considerations). The problem is that the group label is
> > incorrect once there is more than one yvar.
>
> Philip Ryan
>
> > By specifying -blabel(group)- you have asked Stata to label
> > the bars with
> > the value labels of the first (and in your case, only)
> > over() variable,
> > that is, foreign.
> >
> > Specifying -blabel(name)- will get you closer to what I think
> > you want.
> >
> > see help graph -- bar --blabel_options
>
> H�kon Finne
>
> > the admittedly nonsensical example below,
> >
> > sysuse auto, clear
> > graph bar headroom trunk, over(foreign) blabel(group)
> >
> > will produce bar labels inconsistent with labels on the
> > category axis.
> > What have I done to make all cars domestic?
> >
> > One should also think it possible to reproduce this behavior with
> >
> > graph hbar headroom trunk, over(foreign) blabel(group)
> >
> > and yet another surprise -- have I suddenly moved abroad?
> >
>
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