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Re: st: Re: grc1leg
Chris:
I did read your response to Martin. In fact, you'll note I quoted it
below.
But I suspect you do not understand my response. The path name error
is a red herring. The actual problem with your example is that you -
name()- the graphs, but then do not use the named graphs in your -
graph combine- or -grc1leg- commands. Instead, you use saved graphs,
but your graph-generating commands do not contain the -saving()-
option. In other words, even with "correct" paths (or no paths at
all), the example you provided is not self-contained, and cannot
possibly produce the problem you cite.
Why does this matter? For starters, it implies that you have
executed other code outside of your example (such as previously
creating and saving versions of your graphs) that may be critical to
understanding why you are getting the undesired results you report,
error message or not. As such it becomes awfully difficult for
anyone else to accurately troubleshoot your problem. Hence my quoted
reminder from the Statalist FAQ.
Your follow-up message is puzzling to me, as the path (noted above)
and the lack of an error message are not relevant to the issues I
raised regarding your original question and the sample code you sent
to the list. Moreover, to suggest that you're too busy in your
office to submit a complete example or to correct one that you know
is wrong -- to suggest that your time is more valuable than all those
who voluntarily provide suggestions on this list -- strikes me as an
odd attitude to have when you are the one seeking help....
I'm glad you were able to get an answer to your specific question
this time. Perhaps you will recognize as constructive friendly
suggestions that increase the likelihood of others taking their time
to answer your future requests.
-- Mike
On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Chris Witte wrote:
Mike,
I don't think you read my response to Martin. I already
appologized for the pathway screw up that Martin pointed out. It
was my original intent to remove the pathways from the code, but
office distractions led me to overlook those lines in my example.
I also said that Stata did not return any kind of error message,
and that it just ignores my -ysize- option.
Gary,
Thanks for your constructive advice. I'll try to get -graph
display- to work for me.
----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Hanson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 6:29:32 PM
Subject: Re: st: Re: grc1leg
Unless I misunderstand your example (which the exchange below
suggests it may fail the Statalist FAQ dictum: "Say exactly what
you typed and exactly what Stata typed (or did) in response. N.B.
exactly!"), it looks to me that you are not using your named graphs
in your -graph combine- and -grc1leg- commands, but rather (old?)
versions you have saved to disk. If so, this could yield
unanticipated results.
(As an aside: why hard-code Windows-type paths into such a simple
example? It is completely unnecessary, even if you are -saving()-
the graphs. When people do this, they are implicitly saying they
don't want any help from the many folks on Statalist who use a non-
MS operating system.)
-- Mike
On Dec 1, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Chris Witte wrote:
hmm, when I run the -gr combine- I get a very tall skinny combined
graph, but the -grc1leg- does not do that for me. It is like the
ysize option is ignored, and doesn't return an error or anything.
sorry about the path mess...
----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Weiss <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 5:05:35 PM
Subject: st: Re: grc1leg
Seems to me that -grc1leg- takes all the options of the official -
gr combine-. Your syntax runs without error for me (apart from the
obvious path issue), with
. which grc1leg
c:\ado\plus\g\grc1leg.ado
*! version 1.0.4 08sep2005
HTH
Martin
_______________________
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Witte"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:29 PM
Subject: st: grc1leg
I've ran into a problem using -grc1leg-, which puts a single
legend on a combined graph. I am unable to use the -xsize- and -
ysize- region options, which are available when using -graph
combine-. here's an example:
sysuse auto, clear
scatter price mpg, name(g1)
scatter weight length, name(g2)
graph combine "C:\_DATA\g1" "C:\_DATA\g2", ysize(10)
grc1leg "C:\_DATA\g1" "C:\_DATA\g2", ysize(10)
can anyone fix this?
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