Solutions include:
1. -graph hbar-
2. -splitvallabels- from SSC
3. explicit splitting of labels using
compound double quotes (same as 2., but
do it yourself) (discussed on Statalist
previously)
3. using smaller text
4. text at an angle
Nick
[email protected]
Raphael Fraser
> When ever you plot a bar graph stata uses the variable label of the
> "over( variable)" to label the horizontal axis. My problem is the
> labels overlap on the horizontal axis and looks a bit messy. How can
> this be corrected?
>
> My code and graph is attached. Thank you in advance.
>
> #d;
> graph bar (count) p c, over(response)
> bargap(-20) bar(1,bcolor(red)) bar(2,bcolor(green))
> bar(3,bcolor(gold))
> blabel(bar, format(%4.0f) position(outside))
> legend(label(1 "Patients") label(2 "Controls") )
> ytitle("Frequency") yla(,angle(0));
> #d;
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