Re: st: AW: Is it possible to create a bar graph with two yvars

[A Loumiotis <antonis.loumiotis@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot Nick for showing me in detail how to smartly use reshape
to obtain the graph that I want!
Antonis


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I don't understand the reservation. Whatever the relation between -sales- and -sales2-, or your analogues thereof, it is sufficient to have values available both just before you -graph-.
>
> Here is an extension of your examples making clear what I had in mind.
>
> clear
> set obs 1000
> egen id = seq(), block(10)
> egen time = seq(), to(10)
> format time %tq
> gen time2=string(time, "%tq")
> gen sector = ceil(3 * runiform())
> bysort id: replace sector=sector[1]
> label define sector 1 "SECTOR 1" 2 "SECTOR 2" 3 "SECTOR 3"
> label values sector sector
> gen sales=exp(rnormal())*1000
> gen sales2=2*sales
> graph bar (sum) sales, over(sector) ///
> over(time2, label(labsize(vsmall))) asyvars stack legend(size(vsmall))
> graph bar (sum) sales (sum) sales2, over(sector) ///
> over(time2, label(labsize(vsmall))) asyvars stack legend(size(vsmall))
>
> // new NJC code starts here
>
> gen obs = _n
> rename sales sales1
> reshape long sales, i(obs) j(which)
> graph bar (sum) sales ,  over(sector) over(which) ///
> over(time2, label(labsize(vsmall))) asyvars stack legend(size(vsmall))
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> A Loumiotis
>
> Thanks Nick for your hint but I'm not sure how I can apply it to my
> problem.  In this example sales and sales2 have an exact functional
> relationship but usually they will not.  Playing around with graph bar
> I think that the asyvars together with the stack option stacks the
> bars only when there is only one yvar.  Is this correct?
>
> Nick Cox
>
>> You may need to -reshape- so that -sales- and -sales2- become one quantitative and one categorical variable.
>
> A Loumiotis
>
>> Thanks for your help Martin.
>> By omitting the stack option I do not get what I want.  I would like a
>> bar graph of sales and sales2 on the yaxis, time on the x-axis and the
>> bars stacked by sector.  For each time period I would like to have two
>> "stacked (by sector)" bars, one bar for sales and one for sales2.
>> Your suggestion creates six bars for each time period and not two
>> stacked bars.
>
> Martin Weiss
>
>>> Omit the -stack- option in the second call...
>
> A Loumiotis
>
>>> I use a variation of an example by Nick Cox to ask my question:
>>>
>>> clear
>>> set obs 1000
>>> egen id = seq(), block(10)
>>> egen time = seq(), to(10)
>>> format time %tq
>>> gen time2=string(time, "%tq")
>>> gen sector = ceil(3 * runiform())
>>> bysort id: replace sector=sector[1]
>>> label define sector 1 "SECTOR 1" 2 "SECTOR 2" 3 "SECTOR 3"
>>> label values sector sector
>>> gen sales=exp(rnormal())*1000
>>> gen sales2=2*sales
>>> graph bar (sum) sales, over(sector) over(time2,
>>> label(labsize(vsmall))) asyvars stack legend(size(vsmall))
>>> graph bar (sum) sales (sum) sales2, over(sector) over(time2,
>>> label(labsize(vsmall))) asyvars stack legend(size(vsmall))
>>>
>>>
>>> At the end of the code I'm generating two graph bars.  The first one
>>> has the variable sales as yvar where the bars are stacked by sector
>>> and time is the xvar.
>>> What I would like to do is to generate an analogous graph but with two
>>> yvars instead of one, sales and sales2.  So for each period I would
>>> like to have two bars, one for sales and one for sales2.  However, my
>>> second graph bar command does not achieve this. Is it possible to do
>>> this with graph bar?  If yes, what am I doing wrong?
>
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