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Re: st: RE: RE: Plots: save, log, ...
There is another possibility here if you want graphs to be readily
accessible from your log file.
Imagine this scenario, saving your log as SMCL:
log using example, replace
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log: W:\data\example.smcl
log type: smcl
opened on: 15 May 2006, 20:46:43
. [graph command], saving(test)
file test.gph saved
. di "{stata graph use test:Display test graph}"
Display test graph
. log close
log: W:\data\example.smcl
log type: smcl
closed on: 15 May 2006, 20:49:11
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. view W:\data\example.smcl
The viewer will show the log file with a hot link to the graph itself.
When you click on the "Display test graph" text, the graph will be
loaded. This process could be easily automated. It all depends on
how exactly you want to use the output.
I look forward to the day when a SMCL to HTML option does all this for us...
DCE
On 5/15/06, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry, but you have lost me.
Unless what you want is this:
one big file that in some way keeps all
the graph files in a session, just as a .log
file can store all the results displayed in a session.
There is no such thing. (You can use your operating
system or a text editor or a scripting language
to produce such a file by concatenation, but it
won't help, as you will just have to unpack it
all again before Stata can make sense of it.)
A log file can include anything.
The same does not apply to a graph file.
A graph file at root contains Stata code to draw one graph.
That graph can be a composite, but that's it.
Nick
[email protected]
MA V
> Thanks. But since I really want the graphs individually,
> combine does not
> seem to be an option here.
> Ideally, I would like stata to save all the graphs in the do
> file to one
> single file. Note that I have a huge do file not only with
> graphs but with
> other statistics as well.
> Do I have to "copy paste" every plot?
>
> >From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
> >MA V
> >
> > > If I run a do file I can save all my output in a log file.
> > > But this will not
> > > include the graphics... So, is there an easy way of getting
> > > all the plots
> > > into a single file? I would like to avoid having to copy and
> > > paste the plots
> > > one by one...I have many plots in my do file so this last
> > > option can be very time-consuming.
> >
> >You can do this if you want. You just need to
> >issue names for the plots you produce, gather them
> >all together and then use -graph combine-.
> >
> >The principle is illustrated by this:
> >
> >--------------------- may15.do
> >sysuse auto, clear
> >histogram mpg, saving(do1)
> >scatter mpg weight, saving(do2)
> >graph combine "do1" "do2"
> >---------------------
> >
> >In practice, almost always, users either want
> >graphs individually or have far too many graphs
> >to put on one plot. But there is no intrinsic
> >difficulty to what you want, nor a short-cut
> >way to doing it.
> >
> >Nick
> >[email protected]
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