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Re: st: please help me with noixlabel


From   May Boggess <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: please help me with noixlabel
Date   21 Jul 2003 14:36:18 -0500

Dimitriy V. Masterov <[email protected]> asked about how
to control labelling of the x axis on a bar graph.

> graph bar testscore, over(sex) over(race) by(age)
> 
> The problem I am having is that when Stata stacked the plots by age on top
> of each other, the x axis in every single plot is labeled, which takes up
> a lot of valuable room. I would like to only label the bottom plot (for
> age=max(age)).
> 

The reason Stata wants to label the x axis on each of the graphs, is
that each bar graph may have a different range on the x axis. You can
see this in the following example:

	. use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r8/auto1
	. graph bar mpg, by( headroom ) over( foreign )

An alternative is to use -twoway bar-. 

	. bysort  headroom foreign: egen mean=mean(mpg)
	. twoway bar mean foreign , by( headroom )  xlabel(0 "Domestic" 1
"Foreign") xscale(r(-.5,1.5)) yscale(r(0,30)) xtitle("") ytitle("mean of
mpg") barwidth(.6) plotregion(margin(zero))

--May
[email protected]


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