Re: st: incorporate table into figure

[Jeph Herrin <stata@spandrel.net>]

Thanks. I ended up pasting together a table and image for the
first draft, but next time around I will try this.

On 8/25/2010 10:21 AM, Trelle Sven wrote:
> The approach previously described using markerlabels can be used for
> this. Here is an example
> The resulting plot shows text on the left (in variable "prep_label") and
> text, in this case risk ratios plus 95% CI, on the right of the forest
> plot (in variable "result"). variables "resultpos" and "prep_label_pos"
> determine where the text is positioned on the x-axis. The xscale option
> "noline" prevents Stata from drawing the x-axis. Why, because the x-axis
> will not only be drawn from 0.1 to 10 (see xlabel) but from 0.01 to 100
> (see xscale).
> I usually import the graph in Powerpoint, de-group it and connect the
> outer ticks, group it again and save it again as emf-file. That's the
> only manipulation necessary. If you don't care about the x-axis line
> just delete the "noline" option.
>
> BW/Sven
>
>
> *** example starts
> twoway scatter prep med, mcolor(black) msymbol(O) ///
>    || rspike lower upper prep, lcolor(black) horizontal ///
>    || scatter prep resultpos, msymbol(i) mlabel(result) mlabposition(3)
> mlabgap(2) mlabsize(medium) mlabcolor(black) ///
>    || scatter prep prep_label_pos, msymbol(i) mlabel(prep_label)
> mlabposition(9) mlabgap(2) mlabsize(medium) mlabcolor(black) ///
> 	yscale(r(0.5 8.25) rev off) ///
> 	xscale(r(0.01 100) log noline) xlabel(0.1 0.2 0.5 1 2 5 10,
> labsize(medium) format(%03.1f)) xline(1, lcolor(black) lpattern(dash)
> lwidth(thin)) ///
> 	scheme(s1color) title("`title'", justification(left) bexpand)
> plotregion(lstyle(none)) legend(off) name(forest, replace)
> graph export "$gd\forest.emf", replace
> *** example ends
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jeph Herrin
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:07 PM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: incorporate table into figure
>
> My last post on this was so fruitful, I am trying another - in this case
> I need to add a table on the left, so
>
> http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/301/14/1439/JOC90023F3
>
> is there some helpful option or table type I am overlooking?
>
> I know that the previous advice about merging a graph with a table
> inside a Word document (for example) will apply, just wondering if there
> is a more direct way as I may have to revise this figure many many
> times.
>
> thanks,
> Jeph
>
> On 8/23/2010 9:44 PM, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> > I would like to incorporate a very simply (4x2) table into a figure. I
>
> > would like the 4 columns to line up with the four ticks on the x-axis,
>
> > but appearing below the axis. The row labels thus need to be in the
> > left margin. In particular, I need to reproduce a figure such as one
> > of these
> >
> > http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/301/14/1439/JOC90023F2
> >
> > and the issue is lining up the numbers across the bottom.
> >
> > I have tried to set it up as a -caption()- with two strings, but have
> > two problems. First, I cannot persuade the caption to be aligned with
> > the left side of the graph; -span- only aligns with the left edge of
> > the y-axis lable, whereas I have set the margin to be extra wide with
> > -graphreg(m())-. Second, there seems to be no way other than
> > experiment to align the 4 columns with 4 ticks on the x-axis. In the
> > graph editor there is a "position offset" for the caption box which I
> > can set to<0 to achieve what I want, but I cannot find any
> > corresponding textbox_option.
> >
> > Jeph
> >
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