st: How to output graphs coordinates into a file ?

[Jean-François Morazzani <jf.morazzani@ecopa.com>]

Hi all,

Is there a way to save graphs' coordinates in text/csv format?

Suppose I run Stata to "calculate" an histogram and I want to use the points coordinates in another program.
So, I want to save the histogram points in csv or txt form.

For example to fetch the density of var1:
set graphic off
histogram var1
set graphic on
...

I found a way to do it for the roc curves using the following command:
roccurve var1 var2, genrocvars
keep fpr1 tpr1
outsheet using "$data_dir\roc_coordinates.csv", replace delimiter(";")

Note that you will need to install the pcvsuite package from http://labs.fhcrc.org/pepe/stata.

So, is there a better way or more precisely a Stata library that can catch graph coordinates' ?
I wish to do it at least for histograms and scatterplots.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

JFM (newcomer to Stata's world)


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