Re: st: RE: Different graph height with graph, by()

[Friedrich Huebler <fhuebler@gmail.com>]

Thank you, Kieran. Your commands produce the kind of graph I have in
mind. How did you obtain the values for the fysize() option? How would
one identify the right fysize() values for a graph with more
by-groups, as in the example below? Is this a matter of trial and
error?

graph bar mpg, by(rep78, col(1)) ysize(10)

Friedrich

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Kieran McCaul <Kieran.McCaul@uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Something like:
>
> sysuse auto
>
> graph bar mpg if foreign==0, saving(g1, replace) fysize(45)
> graph bar mpg if foreign==1, saving(g2, replace) fysize(55)
>
> graph combine g1.gph g2.gph, cols(1)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Friedrich
> Huebler
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 2010 7:05 AM
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Different graph height with graph, by()
>
> Is it possible to have graphs of different height with -graph, by()-?
> In the example below, two bar graphs are placed on top of each other.
> The upper bar has a height of 20, the lower bar a height of 25. The
> y-axis for the upper and lower graphs has the same range, from 0 to
> 25, and the graphs themselves have the same height.
>
> . sysuse auto
> . graph bar mpg, by(foreign, col(1)) name(a)
>
> Can the absolute height of the upper graph be reduced so that the
> scale only ranges from 0 to 20? In other words, can the area between
> 20 and 25 in the upper graph be cut while keeping the other components
> of the graph unchanged?
>
> The following command changes the scale but not the absolute height of
> the upper graph. In the upper graph, the absolute distance between 0
> and 20 on the y-axis is now the same as the distance between 0 and 25
> in the lower graph and the distance between 0 and 5 in the upper graph
> is greater than the distance between 0 and 5 in the lower graph.
>
> . graph bar mpg, by(foreign, col(1) yrescale) name(b)
>
> I am looking for a way to reduce the height of the upper graph while
> keeping the distance between the ticks of the y-axis identical in the
> upper and lower graph. Can this be done in Stata?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Friedrich
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