Re: st: graph export; path problem

[Sergiy Radyakin <serjradyakin@gmail.com>]

Dear Sven, I see two problems with your code:

1) the option replace must be specified outside of the quotes:
saving("$gd/contour_rr2.gph", replace)
not
saving("$gd/contour_rr2.gph, replace")

2) graph export command must be followed by the file name, WITHOUT the
using prefix.

With both fixed, your code should work.
Best, Sergiy Radyakin


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Trelle Sven <strelle@ctu.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have a problem with the "graph export" command in Stata 12 and hope that = somebody might be able to help (I am not sure whether I asked this question=  before but could not find it in the archive. I know that I had the same pr= oblem in another project. So - I apologize if this question was answered so= me time ago):
>
> I defined the following macros to match the structure of my project folder:
>
> global pp=3D"/Project A/00_Stata" // define path to new project here withou= t drive letter global gd=3D"X:$pp/graphres"
>
> I generate a contour plot and save it with the saving option:
>
> ......, ... saving("$gd/contour_rr2.gph, replace")
>
> This all works fine. Later on in my do-file I have the following code:
>
>                 graph use "$gd/contour_rr2.gph"
>
> This also works fine i.e. the graph window with the graph opens correctly. = But now the problem starts. I want to save this graph as an .emf-file with = the following code:
>
>                 graph export using `"${gd}/contour_rr2.emf"', replace
>
> Stata gives me an error message:
> invalid '"X:/Project A/00_Stata/graphres/contour_rr2.emf'
> r(198);=A8
>
> It seems that there is a problem with the quotes but I have no clue where t= he problem is/how to resolve it ...
> When displaying the path in the graph export command Stata displays the cor= rect path
>                 . dis `"${gd}/contour_rr2.emf"'
> X:/Project A/00_Stata/graphres/contour_rr2.emf
>
> Thanks for any help
> Sven Trelle
>
> p.s. right-clicking on the graph in the graph window to save it as an .emf-= file works without any problems.
>
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