Re: st: RE: RE: -graph bar- bargap option

[Sue <likecats@gmail.com>]

Dear Nick,

Thanks for your input. The variable "ca_cat" actually goes from 1 to
3, for low, medium and high. Is there yet another way to do this
because when I use the "dummy solution", it obviously places a gap of
the size of a bar, and I'd like that bar to be narrower (so that the 4
bars are still closer to each other than between low, medium and high
categories, if that makes sense.).

Thanks,
Sue


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I probably misread this. But some loosely similar fooling, e.g. by
> creating a variable with mean 0 and inserting it between the other two
> variables, is in the same spirit.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Nick Cox
>
> Yes, there is.
>
> We can't see your data, but your problem appears to be on all fours with
>
>
> graph bar (mean) a b c d, over(cat)
>
> where cat = 1,2,3,4.
>
> Now -generate- an extra variable.
>
> gen dummy = cat > 2
>
> and add an extra option
>
> ... over(dummy)
>
> Now edit the graph to remove all traces of the second option, except the
> bigger space.
>
> (If you are using Stata 10, -update- to Stata 10.1. It's free.)
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Sue
>
> I'm using STATA 10 to generate the following bar graph:
>
>  graph bar (mean) pred_f2002 pred_f2005 pred_c2002 pred_c2005,
> over(ca_cat)
>
> Is there a way to put a bigger gap between the second and the third
> bar (relative to the gap between the 1st and 2nd, and 3rd and 4th
> bar)?
>
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