I don't think your conclusion follows at all.
An earlier thread advised
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Stata's version of the _categorical imperative_, although
not as catchy as that formulated by Immanuel Kant, applies
here. Otherwise known as Wiggins' Third Law, it states
"If the going gets tough with a categorical graph,
start [all] over [again] with -twoway-."
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So, can you rewrite your problem in terms of -twoway rbar- etc.?
Nick
[email protected]
Laura Gibbons
Unfortunately my graphs are more complicated than the bar graphs in the
original post, so by() isn't an alternative. But if I could control the
size of the plot region, I'd be home. It looks like I need to settle
for
uneven plot region sizes or use a different graphing program, and
neither
option is appealing. Oh well, thanks for the reply! Laura
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Nick Cox wrote:
> As the old joke has it, "Don't do that, then!"
>
> Seriously, let -graph- do the hard work for you. Go
> back to the data and let the division into two graphs
> be represented by a variable which you use in a -by()- option.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Laura Gibbons
>
> I have a similar problem to the one below:
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-12/msg00329.html
>
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:14:29 +0100 Ulrich Kohler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> I have two graphs, produced with -graph hbar- and want to combine
>> them underneath each other in one single graph.
>> What I want to have is [to have the y axes line up visually]
>> However, since the labels of the second graph are much shorter than
>> those of the first, I end up with a picture like this:
>> +-----------------------------------+
>> Romania |################### |
> ...
>> United Kingdom |## |
>> +-----------------------------------+
>> +-----------------------------------------+
>> EU |## |
> ...
>> CC |####### |
>> +-----------------------------------------+
>>
>> Unfortunately I couldn't found a way to control the starting
> coordinate
>> of the numerical y-axis in the graph-region
> I agree. I have reported this problem to Statacorp. The plotting
> region is determined by the shape and size of labels in the
surrounding
> graph region. Just fixing the format of labels does not correct this,
> since the label mechanism determines the length according to the value
> and then draws it left-justified.
>
> --(rest of post deleted)--
>
> I, too, had tried reformatting the labels, without success.
> I tried setting the same aspect in the graphs, and same xsize and
ysize,
>
> but the plot regions still varied in size.
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