Re: st: AW: using extended macros to title graphs

[David Souther <davidsoutheremail@gmail.com>]

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Yes, Eric, this works!
Much thanks to Eric, Martin, and Nick for your help.

D.S.


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu> wrote:

> I couldn't figure out how to get the outer numeric loop that Nick suggested to work with David's example data/code, but a way I got the title to work is with -levelsof- and looping over the "varlabs" rather than the "vars", ex:
>
> ************
> *!  watch for wrapping issues !*
>
> clear
> inp str35 vars str25 varlabs participant_type1 participant_type2 indicator
> "children_with_mental_illness_" "Children with MI" .4 .5 1
> "communitywide_prevention_init" "Community-wide prevention" .2 .9 0
> "differences_between_families_" "Conflict between families " .3 .2 0
> "dysfunctional_or_broken_famil" "Dysfunctional " .47 .29 0
> "greater_access_to_diversion_o" "Greater access " .2 .5 1
> "greater_tolerance_and_cultura" "Greater tolerance " .6 .2 1
> "high_levels_of_transience_and" "High levels " .5 .2 0
> "holding_juvenile_offenders_mo" "Holding " .4 .4 0
> "homeless_youth_face_special_c" "Homeless " .2 .4 0
> "immigrant_youth_face_special_" "Immigrant " .2 .3 1
> end
> *
>
> local tc  dysfunctional_or_broken_famil  greater_tolerance_and_cultura immigrant_youth_face_special_
>
> levelsof varlabs if indicator==1, loc(tc2)
>
>
> foreach i in `tc2' {
> graph hbar (asis) participant_type1 participant_type2  if indicator==1 & "`i'"==varlabs,  ///
> nofill   bargap(4.5) blabel(bar, size(medium) position(outside) format(%4.2f))  ///
> ytitle(%Responses) title("Causes `i'", size(small))  ///
> legend(size(vsmall)) name(g1, replace)   ///
> subtitle(, size(small) span bexpand) graphregion(margin(tiny)) plotregion(margin(vsmall))
> }
> ************
> Notice that I changed the condition in the -graph hbar- to " if indicator==1 & "`i'"==varlabs".
>
>
> ~ Eric
> __
> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
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>
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
>
>> OK. I was trying not to have to read all your code.
>>
>> You have to fix your outer loop so that it loops over numbers. -vars[text]- won't work unless text is the name of a numeric variable or scalar.
>>
>> Nick
>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of David Souther
>> Sent: 29 March 2010 16:58
>> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>> Subject: Re: st: AW: using extended macros to title graphs
>>
>> Thanks Nick, but this still didn't work for me (this is one of the
>> solutions I had tried before posting this question and that I
>> mentioned in my reply to Martin Weiss--so I guess I am not too far
>> off)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> I guess the problem lies here:
>>>
>>> title("Causes   `=varlabs[`vars[`i']']'")
>>>
>>> should be
>>>
>>> title("Causes   `=varlabs[`=vars[`i']']'")
>>>
>>> as the inner and outer macro manipulations are completely independent.
>>> Otherwise put,
>>>
>>> vars[`i']
>>>
>>> is not the name of a local macro.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>>>
>>> David Souther
>>>
>>> I am trying to use extended macro functions to title a graph with
>>> the value in one string variable that corresponds to another variable.
>>>
>>> So, a condensed version of my data looks like:
>>>
>>> clear
>>> inp str35 vars str25 varlabs participant_type1 participant_type2
>>> indicator
>>> "children_with_mental_illness_" "Children with MI" .4 .5 1
>>> "communitywide_prevention_init" "Community-wide prevention" .2 .9 0
>>> "differences_between_families_" "Conflict between families " .3 .2 0
>>> "dysfunctional_or_broken_famil" "Dysfunctional " .47 .29 0
>>> "greater_access_to_diversion_o" "Greater access " .2 .5 1
>>> "greater_tolerance_and_cultura" "Greater tolerance " .6 .2 1
>>> "high_levels_of_transience_and" "High levels " .5 .2 0
>>> "holding_juvenile_offenders_mo" "Holding " .4 .4 0
>>> "homeless_youth_face_special_c" "Homeless " .2 .4 0
>>> "immigrant_youth_face_special_" "Immigrant " .2 .3 1
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>> I want to graph participant_type(s) for specific conditions (one of
>>> the "vars" in `tc' and indicator==1) while adding the corresponding
>>> "varlabs" title, here's what I tried (and didn't work):
>>>
>>>
>>> local tc  dysfunctional_or_broken_famil  greater_tolerance_and_cultura
>>>  immigrant_youth_face_special_
>>> foreach i in `tc' {
>>> graph hbar (asis) participant_type1 participant_type2  if indicator==1
>>> & "`i'"==vars,  ///
>>> nofill   bargap(4.5) blabel(bar, size(medium) position(outside)
>>> format(%4.2f))  ///
>>> ytitle(%Responses) title("Causes   `=varlabs[`vars[`i']']'")  ///
>>> legend(size(vsmall)) name(g1, replace)   ///
>>> subtitle(, size(small) span bexpand) graphregion(margin(tiny))
>>> plotregion(margin(vsmall))
>>> *graph save g1 "g1.gph", replace
>>> *graph export "causes_`i'_participanttype.pdf", as(pdf) replace name(g1)
>>> }
>>>

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