--- [email protected] wrote:
> We face a challenge in generating batches of reports that are
visually
> identical but provide estimates tailored to specific end-users, for
> example, a standardized "profile" of analytic results by county. From
> Stata, I've done the job semi-manually by transferring output to an
> Excel spreadsheet which is programmed to generate the desired graph
> or chart, then cutting and pasting charts/graphs into MS-Word. It's
> clumsy, with potential for human error, and Word doesn't handle pages
> well when many graphic objects are embedded.
There were two talks at the 2006 UK Stata Users Group Meeting on this
toppic. They can be downloaded from
http://www.stata.com/meeting/12uk/abstracts.html .
> I haven't tried programming Stata to generate graphics directly
> because I think it would take much programming to yield limited
> options compared to Excel.
I am not sure what you mean by programming graphics. You can mean
writing your own .do or .ado file that creates a graph you like. A lot
is possible here with only a few commands. (Though it may take more
programming if you want to create an entirely new type of graph.) Or it
can mean writing your own scheme, which sets a lot of defaults exactly
the way you want. Here a lot is possible, and since you can inherit
from an existing scheme that is close and only change the things you
want to change, it does not have to take a lot of programming. Vince
Wiggins held a talk on Schemes at the UK Stata Users Group meeting I
refered to earlier and you can download his talk too.
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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The Netherlands
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+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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