Re: st: Combining graphs addendum

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

This thread is all tangled up.

First off, -name()- specifies a graph name, and contrary to Rich's
suggestion, you should not add ".gph" in the subsequent -graph
combine- call.

Please

1. Ensure that your code is run from one and only one place. Don't mix
do-file and interactive statements, just in case you have been doing
that.

2. Try this (each /// should appear at the end of a line)

local pre graph bar total_episd_amt if LOS>0 & hospital_group=="" ///
& separation_fy=="2010/11", ///
over (COMPTOT, relabel(2 "Complication" 1 "NoComplication"))

local i=1
foreach v of varlist HIP1824Px HIP1836Px HIP1819Px {

 `pre' over(`v', relabel(2 "`v'"  1 "Other admissions")) ///
 title("Mean episode amount overnight stays, public hospitals 2010/11") ///
 subtitle("`v' with/without complications") name(panel`i', replace)

local i=`i'+1
}

graph describe panel1
graph describe panel2
graph describe panel3

graph combine panel1 panel2 panel3




Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 11 February 2014 20:36, Paul <paul@iheta.com> wrote:
> Thank you Rich but the coding below produced another error message:
>
> "file panel1.gph not found"
>
> local 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(panel`i')
> local i=`i'+1
> }
>
> graph combine panel1.gph panel2.gph panel3.gph,cols(1)
>
> My loop with the local `i' is sending graphs into a void or overwriting
> them
>
> Any more suggestions please?
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> On 12/02/14 12:06 AM, "Richard Goldstein" <richgold@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>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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