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Re: st: the use of loop function in Stata
From
Steve Nakoneshny <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: the use of loop function in Stata
Date
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:28:07 -0600
You will also need to add the -replace- option to the histogram command.
On 2012-03-13, at 8:44 AM, Dr. Till Ittermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would loop over lname not var:
>
> foreach lname in lnamelist {
> histogram `lname', by(AID4, col(1))
> graph save histogram`lname'
> }
>
>
>
> m 13.03.2012 15:36, schrieb Rosie Chen:
>> Nick, thank you very much for the further advice, which makes the syntax more efficient. Given the loop syntax I have, how to save all the histogram graphs? If I use the code below, the error message says: "file histogram.gph already exists".
>>
>>
>> foreach var of varlist lp*{
>>
>> histogram `var', by(AID4, col(1))
>>
>> graph save histogram
>> }
>>
>>
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