Re: st: Combining graphs addendum

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

you need to add ".gph" to your names in your "graph combine" line

Rich

On 2/10/14, 10:06 PM, Paul wrote:
> Sorry, I omitted the graph combine code
> 
> I have a very large file of 2.3 million hospital admissions, and am
> using stata v 13.1 on a MacBook Pro
> 
> I want to create three bar charts of the hospital cost of complications
> for hip replacement, using three different icd codes for the hip
> procedures. I want to then  combine the three in one graph. 
> 
> This seemed straightforward with the following loop:
> 
> 
> gen i=1
> foreach v of varlist HIP1824Px HIP1836Px HIP1819Px {
>  graph bar total_episd_amt if LOS>0 & hospital_group=="" &
> separation_fy=="2010/11", over (COMPTOT, relabel(2 "Complication" 1
> "NoComplication")) over(`v', relabel(2 "`v'"  1 "  Other admissions"))
> title ("Mean episode amount overnight stays, public hospitals 2010/11")
> subtitle ("`v' with/without complications") name(HIP`i')
>  replace i=i+1
>  }
> graph combine HIP1 HIP2 HIP3,cols(1)
> 
> The error message is : HIP1 is not a memory graph
> 
> I have tried various combinations of the saving and name conventions,
> including double quotation marks around the `i' in the name, but none work.
> 
> Any  ideas, please?
> 
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