Re: st: How to make local condition for graph command

[Caleb Southworth <caleb.southworth@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Nick. That works.

Why is it that locals cannot be subjected to conditions with an if
statement? Not that I really need to know, but it would be convenient.
Or is it that the local is already defined at the point at which I
attempt to conditionally fill it with some string?

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, move your statement
>
> local p25
>
> just inside the loop and after -stci- put
>
> if r(p25) < . local p25 = round(r(p25))
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Caleb Southworth
> <caleb.southworth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This code creates a table and Kaplan Meier graphs for five
>> event-history outcomes.
>>
>> My problem is that under some circumstances, the 25th percentile is
>> undefined, so my -local p25- is undefined. This causes graph to crash
>> because I cannot specify a line at a missing value. Could someone
>> propose a work-around that is the logical equivalent of
>>
>> local p25="" if missing(r(p25))
>>
>> The crash occurs in the line "sts graph" when missing(r(p25))
>>
>> begin code:
>>
>> set more off
>> log using ${docpath}stdesc.txt, text replace
>> log off
>> local mean
>> local p25
>> assert event!=.&event<=5
>> forval i=1/5 {
>>         qui stset app_dt, fail(event==`i') id(Cin) origin(time td(1Jan2008)) noshow
>>         qui log on
>>         qui stdescribe
>>         di "event= " `i' " subjects= " r(N_sub) " failure= " r(N_fail) "
>> mean= " r(f_mean)
>>         qui log off
>>         qui stci, rmean
>>         local mean=round(r(rmean))
>>         qui stci, p(25)
>>         local p25=round(r(p25))
>>         sts graph, xline(`p25' `mean') xlab(0(300)1500 `p25' `mean',
>> angle(45)) saving(${gphpath}km`i'.gph, replace)
>>         }
>> log close
>>
>> Here's the actual crash:
>>
>> event= 4 subjects= 63399 failure= 696 mean= .01097809
>> invalid label specifier, :  . 1537:
>> r(198);
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