Re: st: AW: -graph combine- question

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Thanks for the tips. I think I've just managed to sort
it out with the -by()- approach.

Nick Winter wrote:
> One less-than-ideal approach I often use is to use the "fill" suboption 
> when suppressing the axis on the plot. This creates extra space between 
> the plots, which can only partly be dealt with through -imargin-, but at 
> least they are even:
>
> . gr twoway scatter mpg price, xscale(off fill) name(g1)
> . gr twoway scatter mpg price, xscale(off fill) name(g2)
> . gr twoway scatter mpg price, name(g3)
>
> . gr combine g1 g2 g3, col(1) imargin(0 0 -4 -4)
>
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> > Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Jeph Herrin
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Juli 2009 19:36
> > An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Betreff: st: -graph combine- question
> >
> >
> > I am using Stata 10.1.
> >
> > I am trying to stack up several graphs that have identical
> > layouts, with a shared x-axis. Thus, I would like to have the
> > x-axis only appear at the bottom of the bottom graph.
> >
> > Therefore, I suppress the x-axis on all but the last graph,
> > gN.gph, and then use:
> >
> >    graph combine g1.gph ... gN.gph, col(1) xcommon imargin(0 0 0 0)
> >
> > This works fine except that the bottom graph is compressed relative
> > to the other graphs - because of the additional axis.
> >
> > I have fiddled with the aspect ratio of the bottom graph to try to
> > get the final combined graph to look the same as the others, but
> > cannot get a good fit.  Is there a better way to do this? At the
> > least, I need a formula for how much height the axis labels add
> > to my graph, so I can expand accordingly. Any ideas?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Jeph
> >
> >
> >
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