Well spotted. Knowing the answer allows also a determination that Jeff
Pitblado explained this in 2003.
http://www.stata.co.uk/statalist/archive/2003-12/msg00108.html
Nick
[email protected]
Michael Blasnik..
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" <[email protected]>
To: "statalist hsphsun2. harvard. edu" <[email protected]>
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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