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st: RE: RE: RE: finicky graph parsing
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: RE: RE: finicky graph parsing
Date
Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:45:01 +0000
Indeed. I don't see that what you type here should have worked at all.
Tastes vary, but I
1. prefer to use || rather than the () notation for separate -twoway- calls: there are usually quite enough parentheses floating around.
2. tend to space out complicated graph commands over several lines in a do-file which I handle inside my favourite text editor, which highlights matches.
Nick
[email protected]
Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
Nick - thank you - but then I wonder why it went through to begin with (?).
Nick Cox
Take out the comma before -xtitle()-.
Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
This works:
twoway (scatter P del1,c(l) s(i) clwidth(thick) clcolor(blue)) (scatter P del2,c(l) s(i) clcolor(red) clwidth(thick) ,xtitle("actual change (mm Hg)") ytitle("probability") legend(order(1 "same operator" 2 "different operators" ) cols(2) ) )
This gives the message "invalid varlist":
twoway (scatter P del1,c(l) s(i) clwidth(thick) clcolor(blue)) (scatter P del2,c(l) s(i) clcolor(red) clwidth(thick),xtitle("actual change (mm Hg)") ytitle("probability") legend(order(1 "same operator" 2 "different operators" ) cols(2) ) )
So does this:
twoway (scatter P del1,c(l) s(i) clwidth(thick) clcolor(blue)) (scatter P del2,c(l) s(i) clcolor(red) clwidth(thick), xtitle("actual change (mm Hg)") ytitle("probability") legend(order(1 "same operator" 2 "different operators" ) cols(2) ) )
The only difference is the spacing after "clwidth(thick)" and before "xtitle".
Why?
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