Re: st: RE: Extending axis when using -catplot-

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

-catplot- by default calls -graph hbar- and the response axis is the
y-axis, regardless of the fact that it is horizontal.
Nick

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Lucie Vlach
<Lucie.Vlach@albertahealthservices.ca> wrote:
> I think I made this work with:    ylabel(0(10)50, labsize(small))
>
> I hope that is correct, at least it looks ok to me so far.

Lucie Vlach

> I am creating two graphs and then combining them into one for easy viewing. James data vs. everyone's data, in percentages.
>
> I like the look of -catplot- for these. (-catplot- is a user-written package by Nicholas J. Cox available from SSC)
>
> When I combine the two graphs, one ends the axis at 30% because the data has the highest bar reaching only max 30% and the second one ends at 40%, based on its data.
>
> Is there a way to extend the 30% scale to 40% on my shorter graph so that both graphs have the same length of the axis?
> Something like -xscale- etc? I cannot get this to work. I need to have the 'james' graph displaying scale that reaches at least 40%, even though data only goes to 30%.
>
> Thank you very much for any help!
>
> ============
> catplot   abc_groups, by(james) percent(james) ysize(2.5) ytitle("James in percent") blabel(bar, format(%4.1f))
> graph save Graph "james.gph"
>
> catplot   abc_groups, by(everyone) percent(everyone) ysize(2.5) ytitle("everyone in percent") blabel(bar, format(%4.1f))
> graph save Graph "everyone.gph"
>
> grc1leg "james.gph" "everyone.gph", cols(1)imargin(0 0 0 0) ycommon xcommon legendfrom("james.gph")
> =============
>

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