Re: st: Making a bar graph from the row of a matrix

[Mauricio Esteban Cuak <cuak2000@gmail.com>]

Nick,

Thanks for your help, your code looks much better.
And yes, the code I sent was just for the list to know what I was doing.
Best!

ME

2013/4/8 Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>:
> Your runnable code made it easier to see what you are doing; thanks.
> Presumably this is just an example we can all play with.
>
> -svmat- is a rather ugly command; the code here avoids it and adds a
> couple of small tricks.
>
> More importantly, I suggest considering a -graph dot- command. With
> more than a few predictors, which you may have in your real
> application(s), it is likely to be easier to read the resulting graph.
>
> clear all
> sysuse auto.dta
> qui reg price mpg trunk weight
> matrix test = e(V)
> matrix rowtest = test["weight", 1...]
> /* rowtest is the row I want to graph     */
> gen var_colnames = ""
> gen trans_rowtest = .
> tokenize "`: colnames rowtest'"
> qui forval i = 1/`= colsof(rowtest)' {
>  replace trans_rowtest = rowtest[1, `i'] in `i'
>  replace var_colnames = "``i''" in `i'
> }
> graph bar (asis) trans_rowtest, over(var_colnames)
> graph dot (asis)trans_rowtest, over(var_colnames) ///
> yli(0, lc(gs12) lw(vthin)) ytitle("coefficient")
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 8 April 2013 16:49, Mauricio Esteban Cuak <cuak2000@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Nick, thanks for the answer.
>> The following code plots the graph I wanted and may be useful for other people.
>> It doesn't look very nice however.
>> As suggested by Nick, I moved the names into a variable (slightly
>> tricky) and the values into another.
>>
>>
>> /* Begin CODE */
>>
>> clear all
>>
>> sysuse auto.dta
>>
>> qui reg price mpg trunk weight
>>
>> matrix test = e(V)
>>
>>
>> matrix rowtest = test["weight", 1...]
>>
>> /* rowtest is the row I want to graph     */
>>
>>
>> local names : colnames rowtest
>>
>> local n_names : word count `names'
>>
>>
>> gen var_colnames = ""
>>
>> forval i=1/`n_names' {
>>
>> local this_name = "`:word `i' of `names''"
>>
>> replace var_colnames = "`this_name'" if _n == `i'
>>
>> }
>>
>> matrix trans_rowtest = rowtest'
>>
>> svmat trans_rowtest
>>
>> graph bar trans_rowtest1, over(var_colnames)
>>
>>
>> **************************************
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/4/7 Mauricio Esteban Cuak <cuak2000@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Hi Nick, thanks for the answer.
>>> The following code plots the graph I wanted and may be useful for other people.
>>> It doesn't look very nice however.
>>> As suggested by Nick, I moved the names into a variable (slightly tricky) and the values into another.
>>>
>>>
>>> **************BEGIN CODE********************
>>>
>>> clear all
>>>
>>> sysuse auto.dta
>>>
>>> qui reg price mpg trunk weight
>>>
>>> matrix test = e(V)
>>>
>>>
>>> matrix rowtest = test["weight", 1...]
>>>
>>> /* rowtest is the row I want to graph     */
>>>
>>>
>>> local names : colnames rowtest
>>>
>>> local n_names : word count `names'
>>>
>>>
>>> gen var_colnames = ""
>>>
>>> forval i=1/`n_names' {
>>>
>>> local this_name = "`:word `i' of `names''"
>>>
>>> replace var_colnames = "`this_name'" if _n == `i'
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> matrix trans_rowtest = rowtest'
>>>
>>> svmat trans_rowtest
>>>
>>> graph bar trans_rowtest1, over(var_colnames)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/4/3 Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> The easiest way to do this is probably to copy values from your matrix
>>>> to a variable and then call up -twoway bar-.
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