Re: st: RE: AW: help with twoway bar chart using by option

[Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk>]

Thank you Nick and Martin for your suggestions!
I really appreciate your help,
Best wishes,
Miranda


Nick Cox wrote:
> This may help you start. 
>
> sysuse auto, clear
> collapse (mean) mean = mpg, by(foreign rep78) 
> gen text = cond(foreign, "goodbye", "hello") 
> su mean, meanonly 
> gen y = 1.1* r(max)
> gen x = 4 
> twoway bar mean rep78, by(foreign) || scatter y x, ms(none) mla(text)
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> Martin Weiss
>
> You want to look at
>
> *************
> help added_text_options
> *************
>
> Miranda Kim
>
> I am a Stata v11 user, and would very much appreciate any suggestions on
>
> the following:
>
> I would like to produce a twoway bar chart using the by option, for
> example:
>
> For example:
> sysuse auto, clear
> collapse (mean) mean = mpg, by(foreign rep78)
> twoway bar mean rep78, by(foreign)
>
> I would then like to insert a different text box in each plot area.
>
> So in the example above, how could I insert a text box in the "Domestic"
>
> plot area that says "hello" and a textbox in the foreign area that says 
> "goodbye"?
>
> At present, I only know how to insert a textbox that is replicated in 
> both plot areas...
>
> The graph I am producing has many more formatting specifications to make
>
> it look nice, but I have just used the above example to help illustrate 
> the specific issue I cannot, at present, resolve.
>
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