st: Re: Controlling display format for -addlabel- option on -histogram-

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

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You can use the slightly documented (see help histogram, last sentence under Bar 
labels section) option addlabopts with the yvarformat suboption.  For example, 
to get one decimal place :

histogram rep78, width(1) addlabel addlabopts(yvarformat(%4.1f))

I have no idea if this is available through the graph dialogue since I don't use 
those, but it is easy to edit the resulting command and resubmit it.

M. Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronan Conroy" <rconroy@rcsi.ie>
To: "statalist hsphsun2. harvard. edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:19 AM
Subject: st: Controlling display format for -addlabel- option on -histogram-



> A colleague was producing some bar charts using -histogram-, using 
> the -addlabel- option to add the actual values at the top of each  bar. (I 
> find this a futile exercise, but some folks like it.)
>
> He found that his labels were being added with two or even three  places of 
> decimals. For the life of me I cannot find how to use the - histogram- graph 
> dialogue to control the display format. Can it be done?
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