Re: st: Thread-Index: Ac049lzDw8LzBnUBQd+6mSCfgPrdJg==

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Your syntax like

`: lab Sweden'

is illegal as a way of looking up value labels and not analogous to
Austin's example. See -help extended fcn-.

There are two main syntaxes

`:  valuelabelname  #'

`: (varname) #'

and yours is neither.

You could just say (e.g.)

title(Sweden)

if that is what you want.

For the rest, try the sections in [U] on local macros and weights.

Nick

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Amal Khanolkar <Amal.Khanolkar@ki.se> wrote:
> Dear Austin,
>
> Based on the code you suggested, I have the following:
>
> loc c vioplot bw [pw=finalwgt]
> `c' if motherland3==1, ti(`:lab Sweden') den(col(blue)) name(e1)
> `c' if motherland3==2, ti(`:lab NA') den(col(green)) name(e2) ysc(off)
> `c' if motherland3==3, ti(`:lab Iran') den(col(edkblue)) name(e3) ysc(off)
> gr combine Sweden NA Iran, nocop ycommon row(1) name(vio)
> byhist bw, by(motherland3) frac tw(leg(col(1)))
>
>
> - where bw is the continous outcome whose distributions I would like to produce by the categorical variable motherland3 which has 10 categories.
>
> - I've just wirtten the lines for the first 3 categories of the motherland3 variable above.
>
> -However I keep getting a error message that the line 'c' if motherland3==1....' is invalid syntax. Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong and what exactly the 'c' signifies?
>
> I also want to know what the (pw=finalwgt) does.
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