Re: st: RE: Stata 13 wishlist

[William Buchanan <william@williambuchanan.net>]

Wow.  I wish I would have come across that file before.  After browsing through that, I'm pretty sure many graph issues that people have (myself included) could probably be cleared up with additional documentation in this area.  If you've not checked out the presentation, it's very worth it and the graph of ocean currents and outline of Alaska is definitely a good illustration of Stata flexing it's muscles.


On Jan 4, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Maarten Buis wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Nick Bornschein wrote:
>> Show the changed syntax in command line after editing a graph via graph
>> editor.
> 
> As was mentioned before, the problem is that the graph editor does not
> work by changing the graph command but by directly editing the graph
> object. This is a strength and a weakness: it allows you to do things
> that are impossible with normal graph commands, but it cannot result
> in a modified graph command that can be returned.
> 
> This does not mean that there are no Stata commands involved. You can
> see what the commands are by using the recorder, and open the
> resulting file. There is some explanation on how to interpret these
> types of commands that directly manipulate graph objects in this talk
> by Vince Wiggins at the 2004 UK Stata Users' Group:
> <http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/usug04/8.html>.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
> 
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