Re: st: RE: RE: Graphics

[Keith Dear <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

My reading of Paticia's question is that she wants something more like this:

forval g=1/5 {
scatter y x if group==`g', by(state, cols(5)) name(g`g')
}

This should create five graphs, each containing 10 scatterplots, one 
state per plot.
If it doesn't matter which states go in which group, the groups might 
be set up by:

encode state, gen(istate)       // istate is 1..50
gen byte group=(istate+9)/10    // group is 1..5

kd

At 06:17 AM 8/04/2008, you wrote:

> Stata, like any other computer program, does what you tell it to do,
> not what you want it to do, and for good reason: How is Stata supposed
> to know which states you want to group together?
>
> So, first decide which states you want grouped together in one plot,
> than create a variable such that all the state you want to group
> together get the same value, call this variable group, than the syntax
> provided by Nick will do what you want.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
> --- Patricia Yu <pyu1@wisc.edu> wrote:
>
> > Dear Nick:
> > Thank you very much for responding.
> > I have already tried the syntax you recommended.
> > . scatter y x, by(group)
> > My problem is below:
> > My group is "state."
> > I have a dataset which contains 50 states; therefore, I had 50 state
> > scatter
> > plots in one graphic when I use this syntax.
> > Now, I want to only have 10 state scatter plots in one graphic and I
> > will
> > have five graphics containing all 50 states in the U.S.
> > How can I do 10 state scatter plots in one graphic from my 50 state
> > dataset?
> > Thank you.
> > -Patricia
> >
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 1:36 PM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: RE: Graphics
> >
> > Dear Patricia:
> >
> > Please do not send HTML to the list, just plain text.
> >
> > You say you have a problem, but you do not say what the problem is,
> > for example in terms of code you tried that did not do what you
> > wanted.
> >
> > Let me guess that you have 10 groups of states indicated in
> > a variable -group-.
> >
> > . scatter y x, by(group)
> >
> > is then one possibility.
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > Patricia Yu
> >
> > When I use Stata syntax to run graphics, I encountered a problem.
> > I have data for 50 states in the U.S.
> > I want to create five graphics. Each graphic contains 10 state
> > two-way
> > scatter plots.
> >
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