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st: RE: legend in -twoway line-


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: legend in -twoway line-
Date   Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:39:05 -0000

I am not clear where you want these legend
labels to come from. -separate- picks up 
the value labels of each variable; 
don't they end in the legend? 

Nick 
[email protected] 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Sascha O.
> Becker
> Sent: 02 March 2004 12:30
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: legend in -twoway line-
> 
> 
> Dear Nick,
> 
> thanks for your very helpful suggestion on -separate- and -labutil- !
> 
> One thing I was not able to resolve, though, is how to get the legend
> labels "automated". The way I understand the -legend- option 
> in -twoway 
> line- is that the -legend- option only allows to change
> labels one by one, so it does not seem to be possible to attach 
> pre-defined labels as if it were value labels.
> 
> One has to specify the legend with each single label in brackets
> (e.g. legend(label (1 "Employees") (2 "Self-Employed") )
> which does not seem to lend itself to sdavemthing like
> 
> legend(mylabel)
> 
> where mylabel is a "standard" value label
> 
> Is there a workaround for this as well?
> 
> Cheers, Sascha
> 
> > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:23:39 -0000
> > From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: st: RE: looping over a series of line plots
> > 
> > Something like this may help. In this 
> > - -labnoeq- is in -labutil- on SSC. 
> > 
> > foreach v of var <whatever> {
> > 	preserve 
> > 	collapse `v', by(year occ)
> > 	separate `v', by(occ) short 
> > 	local vars "`r(varlist)'" 
> > 	labnoeq `vars' 
> > 	local vlabel "`:variable label `v''"
> > 
> >       twoway line `vars' year, ///
> > 		xtitle("Year") ytitle(`vlabel') /// 
> > 		title("`vlabel'-type of occupation") 
> > 	restore 
> > } 
> > 
> > 
> > Nick 
> > [email protected] 
> > 
> > Sascha O. Becker
> > 
> >>I have micro data on individuals and the following variables:
> >>different wage and income measures, working status (3 
> categories) and
> >>year I and would like to plot trends in all of those wage and income
> >>measures across occupations and produce simple line plots.
> >>Since I want to produce a whole series of similar plots, I was
> >>looking for a smart way to save on code but I got stuck.
> >>Here is what I do to produce a single graph (my question 
> follows below
> >>the code):
> >>
> >>******* BEGIN OF CODE
> >>
> >>collapse wage, by(year occ);
> >>
> >>g wageocc1=wage if occ==1;
> >>g wageocc2=wage if occ==2;
> >>g wageocc3=wage if occ==3;
> >>
> >>collapse (sum) wageocc*, by(year);
> >>
> >>list;
> >>
> >>twoway line wageocc* year,
> >>        xtitle("Year")
> >>        ytitle("Hourly Wage")
> >>        title("Hourly Wage by type of occupation")
> >>        legend(label (1 "Employees") (2 "Self-Employed") (3 "Not
> >>employed");
> >>
> >>******* END OF CODE
> >>
> >>
> >>My question is how I might automatize a whole series of graphs.
> >>Here is what I thought I could do:
> >>
> >>
> >>+++++++++++
> >>
> >>foreach var in varlist {
> >>
> >>    collapse `varname', by(year occ);
> >>    ...
> >>    ...
> >>
> >>    twoway line `varname'occ* year,
> >>        xtitle("Year")
> >>
> >>        ytitle(-variable label-)  <<------- Here I would 
> like to have
> >>the variable label of  that variable which I currently loop about
> >>
> >>        title(-variable label-"type of occupation") <<------- Here I
> >>would like to have the variable label
> >>                          of that variable which I currently 
> >>looped about
> >>
> >>        legend(label (1 "Employees") (2 "Self-Employed") (3 "Not
> >>employed"); <<------- Here I would like to have the
> >>                                                              
> >>    VALUE
> >>labels of the working
> >>                          status/occupation variable, so
> >>something like -legend (label occlabel)-
> >>
> >>     }
> >>
> >>+++++++++++
> >>
> >>
> >>However, it seems that I do not get this to work the way I 
> want: e.g.
> >>the -legend- option only allows to change
> >>labels one by one, so it does not seem to be possible to attach
> >>pre-defined labels.
> 
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