I believe this is the same as my second example. The two separate
-scatter- statements cause the sizes of the plotting circles to be
recalculated for each -scatter- statement, so that the areas are no
longer proportional to the sample size N. This is why I want to
specify the color via a variable, analogous to the -msymbol(rep78)-
example.
Jake
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kieran McCaul <[email protected]> wrote:
> .
>
>
> How about:
>
> local f0 = "red"
> local f1 = "green"
> twoway (scatter mpg rep78 [fweight=N] if foreign==0, msymbol(Oh)
> mcolor(`f0')) ///
> (scatter mpg rep78 [fweight=N] if foreign==1, msymbol(Oh)
> mcolor(`f1')) ///
> , legend(off)
>
>
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, 27 April 2009 6:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: -twoway scatter- different colors for different
> observations
>
> The following syntax specifies a plot marker or -mlabel- that can take
> on a different value at each plotting point (at each observation),
> according to the value of variable specified in the -mlabel-
> statement.
>
> clear all
> sysuse auto
> scatter price mpg, mlabel(rep78) m(i) mlabposition(3)
>
> But I would like to define a variable that specifies that certain
> observations be plotted green, others red. Alternatively that certain
> be plotted with color -none- and others with a visible color. How does
> one do this?
>
> To motivate this (with an artificial example constructed to mimic a
> real example): The following code plots average mpg by rep78, averaged
> separately for foreign and domestic autos. Crucially, the area of the
> plotting symbol is proportional to the sample size. I would like to
> distinguish visually between domestic and foreign autos, though. Two
> *separate* -scatter- statements (the second -twoway- command below)
> don't give the desired result, because the plotting symbols are
> re-scaled for each -scatter- statement. You can see this by switching
> rapidly between the two exported graphs, junk1.pdf and junk2.pdf. And
> an attempt to define a string variable -mycolor- which takes on values
> "red" and "green", and then to specify -mcolor(mycolor)- analogously
> to the -mlabel(rep78)- statement above, returns an error.
>
> clear all
> set more on
> sysuse auto
> drop if rep78==.
> sort foreign rep78
> collapse (mean) mpg (count) N=price, by(foreign rep78)
> /*
> A larger value for N will make the problem easier to see.
> */
> replace N=50 in 6
> list
> set scheme lean1
> twoway (scatter mpg rep78 [fweight=N], msymbol(Oh))
> graph export junk1.pdf, replace
> more
> twoway ///
> (scatter mpg rep78 [fweight=N] if foreign==0, msymbol(Oh)
> mcolor(red)) ///
> (scatter mpg rep78 [fweight=N] if foreign==1, msymbol(Oh)
> mcolor(green)) ///
> , legend(off)
> graph export junk2.pdf, replace
> more
> /* The following returns an error */
> gen mycolor=""
> replace mycolor="red" if foreign==0
> replace mycolor="green" if foreign==1
> tabulate foreign mycolor
> twoway (scatter mpg rep78 [fweight=N], msymbol(Oh) mcolor(mycolor))
>
>
> The [G] GRAPHICS manual under -marker_options- says that one could
> define color by specifying a list of elements, as
>
> -mcolor( red green red)-
>
> but this would be clumsy and error-prone. There must be a way to use
> the values of a variable, as in the -mlabel(rep78)- example?
>
> Thanks for any insights
>
> Jacob A. Wegelin
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> Department of Biostatistics
> Virginia Commonwealth University
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