This area of syntax is certainly
troublesome while you are learning it,
but I am not sure what Bill wants here.
The parser has, as I understand it,
one essential job with four components:
1 parse what the user types into tokens
2 decide if the whole is legal
3 issue an error message if not
4 pass on for execution if so.
What facilities are you requesting for
the parser here? Some sort of advice
or counselling facility?
"Are you sure that you really mean to
ask for that?"
That goes way, way beyond what is the
scope of the parser, in terms of either
aim or ability. I can't see it as a
job for any other part of the software
either.
Nick
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Dupont, William
> I believe that this somewhat arcane syntax is likely to puzzle many
> users who attempt to use the -by()- option with the usual (non-nested)
> -legend()- option. Would it be possible for the Stata parser
> to issue a
> warning message whenever a user does this? I recently ran into this
> same problem and it took me a while to track down David's
> explanation.
David Harrison
>
> I should also have said, there is more information on this in the help
> for "legend_option" under the subheading "Use of legends with by()" -
> essentially if you are changing the location of the legend (or in this
> case whether it appears at all) it goes inside the -by()-, if you are
> changing the contents of the legend it goes outside.
> -legend()- needs to be given as a suboption of -by()-, so make it
> -by(sex, legend(off))-
Ricardo Ovaldia
> I wanted to what I tough was a simple graph but I am
> having trouble suppressing the legend when I use the
> by() option. What am I doing wrong? Here id the data
> and command:
>
> . cl
>
> or ub lb copies sex
> 1. 1 . . 0 Female
> 2. .645 .478 .87 1 Female
> 3. .382 .209 .699 2 Female
> 4. 1 . . 0 Male
> 5. .978 .727 1.316 1 Male
> 6. 1.128 .686 1.853 2 Male
>
> . graph twoway (rcap lb ub copies) (scatter or
> copies), by(sex) yscale(log) legend(off)
>
> Everything works by legend(off) is ignored.
>
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