Re: st: How to vertically align graphs with Stata 12 ?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

The thread you cite from 2003 concerns graphs from -graph hbar-. In
that case the graphs are rather different from yours given Stata's use
of categorical axes.

As you have results from -line-, meaning -twoway line-, I would expect
-graph combine- to give good results but it may require use of the
-xcommon- option.

In any case you don't give here _any_ exact syntax  that would allow
detailed comment on what you did. You already should have read this
advice at

http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#stata

"Say exactly what you typed and exactly what Stata typed (or did) in
response. N.B. exactly! If you can, reproduce the error with one of
Stata's provided datasets or a simple concocted dataset that you
include in your posting."

Please follow it.

Nick

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Francesco <cariboupad@gmx.fr> wrote:

> I created 3 (sub)graphs using the -line command, where the x-axis
> represents dates (months, years, etc), and I would like to align them
> vertically.
> That is obtaining one single graphical output that displays one
> (sub)graph per row and with the following important feature : if you
> draw an imaginary vertical line from a particular date of any graph
> you should cut the x-axis of the other graphs at the same date...
>
> I tried with the -graph combine option, but it does not work properly
> : there is a slight time lag probably due to y-axis labels... so the
> graphs are not perfectly aligned..
> Also I found a thread which basically concludes that it is not obvious
> to do this with Stata in a slightly different context :
> (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-12/msg00329.html)
>
> However this post was made in ... 2003 ! I am sure that some
> improvements have been introduced since...
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