Notice: On April 23, 2014, Statalist moved from an email list to a forum, based at statalist.org.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: st: -tabplot- and number of options limit
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: -tabplot- and number of options limit
Date
Sun, 8 Jul 2012 02:06:56 +0100
Thanks very much for the commendation.
-tabplot- is from SSC. You don't cite the exact command you gave but
at a guess what is biting you is a limit on what you can do with
-twoway-. But my guess is that you are trying to use its -separate()-
option to get separate colours for each of your categories. That can
only lead to an extraordinary mess! The default with -tabplot- is that
categories are distinguished by axis labels and 20 categories on one
or both variables are no problem. -separate()- is intended only for
special cases, such as highlighting a subset.
I really need to see your exact syntax to advise well here.
Nick
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Beede, David N <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to use -tabplot- with 20 industry categories (which also happens to be the maximum permitted number of categories for the command according to the help file), but I get an error message that I have too many options (the default maximum number of options is 70 in Stata). On the Stata FAQs, I see that one can get around the 70 option limit by using the * option in the -syntax- command (as in syntax[, opt1 opt2...*]), and when I took a peek at the -tabplot- ado file there indeed was a * at the end of syntax[]. So I am a bit puzzled why I get the error message. Any thoughts?
>
> And I want to convey a heartfelt thank-you to Nick Cox for -tabplot- and everything else he has generously shared with us Statans. :)
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/