st: Putting a rug underneath a boxplot

[Oliver Jones <ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de>]

Hi Statalist,
the task is to create a boxplot with a rug underneath it.
My first attempt was to do something like this:

************************* begin example *************************
sysuse auto, clear

graph hbox price, ///
		ylab(minmax,nogrid) yscale(off) ///
		graphregion(icol(white) col(white)) ///
		nodraw name(boxplot, replace)
	gr_edit .varaxis.draw_view.setstyle, style(no)
	
gen byte y_value = 1
tw spike y_value price, ///
		fysize(20) xlab(minmax) yscale(off) ylab(0(1)1, nogrid) ///
		graphregion(icol(white) col(white)) ///
		nodraw name(rug_plot, replace)
		
	
graph combine boxplot rug_plot, ///
		ysize(3) iscale(1) ///
		graphregion(icol(white) col(white)) ///
		rows(2) imargin(b=0 t=0) name(gcom1, replace)

************************* end example *************************


Two thing still give me trouble:

First:
The gap between the boxplot and the rug is too big.

Second:
When -graph combine- ing 10 of these "box-rug-plot"
the rug is so huge that the boxplots are not visible anymore.

I allready had a look at "Speaking Stata: Graphing distributions" N.J. Cox (2004) in The Stata 
Journal Issue 4 Number 1 pp.66-88, but the way he puts a rug underneath a histogram is not 
possible for a boxplot, or is it and I just don't know how to do it?

Kind regards
Oliver
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