Re: st: Looping through graphs w/ foreach?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

For a slideshow, put -more- as the last line within the loop.

local empcategories "EMPJ EMPK EMPL EMPM EMPNEMPO EMPP EMPQ EMPR"
foreach var of local empcategories {
local graphtitle : variable label `var'
twoway line `var' `var'_neg Year if Mnemonic==trim("AMSTER")
more
}

In addition, note that your local -graphtitle- does nothing useful
unless you put the text somewhere on the graph.

Nick

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Suran, Luciana @ CBRE EA
<Luciana.Suran@cbre.com> wrote:

> I am relearning Stata after a few years away using other statistical
> software so apologies for the introductory nature of this question.
>
> I have a time series dataset for ~ 20 cities - showing employment levels
> a number of different sectors (EMPJ, EMPK, EMPL, etc.), with each
> employment sector having a "base" (e.g. EMPJ) and "negative" (e.g.
> EMPJ_neg) forecast scenario.
>
> How can I loop through graphs showing the scenarios for each of the
> (many) employment categories? I can't use "graph combine" as too may
> graphs are displayed and I can't closely examine them. Is there a way I
> could hit the spacebar or Enter key to move to the next graph? And can
> all the grpahs be saved at once in one file?
>
> I tried the following code, but only the final variable, EMPR, is
> displayed:
>
> local empcategories "EMPJ EMPK EMPL EMPM EMPNEMPO EMPP EMPQ EMPR"
> foreach var of local empcategories {
> local graphtitle : variable label `var'
> twoway line `var' `var'_neg Year if Mnemonic==trim("AMSTER")
> }
>
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