Re: st: Combining graphs addendum

[Paul <paul@iheta.com>]

Thank you Nick. Your more elegant code produced the error message shown
below the code.

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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

********************

Error message: "graph panel1 not found"


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My subsequent "graph describe" shows that only panel3 is in memory, so
your first two "graph describe panel1" and "graph describe panel2" found
nothing to describe.

Something is eating my first two graphs.

Paul Gross   

On 12/02/14 7:51 AM, "Nick Cox" <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:

>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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