I recently made a similar suggestion to Stata Corp, which has been
passed on to the developers. Until a percent format or something similar
is implemented, I include a line in my -graph bar- such as
text(x y "%", color(black) size(small), where x and y are coordinates
found by trial and error.
..Frank
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:05 AM
To: statalist
Subject: st: percent format
I often work with percentages, and find it somewhat annoying that
I have to convert numbers to strings to get them to show up with
a %-sign. This is particularly a nusiance with graphs, where a histogram
that might naturally use %s on the y-axis cannot be persuaded
to do so without generating the frequencies first, relabeling them
as strings with %s, and then making a two-plot. Is there a trick that
I don't know about? Is there a reason that Stata avoids, eg, -format
%6.1p-?
Seems like it would be a trivial modification at some level.
BTW, I use Stata 9, in case it matters.
thanks,
Jeph
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