st: bar graph of multiple variables

[Richard Sherman <richard.sherman@mac.com>]

Dear statalist,

Here is what must be a simple graphing problem; I confess that I am 
still mostly baffled by the Stata 8 graphics syntax.

I have seven variables, c1-c7, that take values 1, 2, or 3.  I want a 
graph of the frequencies of these variables that looks something like 
this:


freq |
     |
     |
     |  *
     |  *                        *
     |  *                        *
     |  *              *         *
     |  *  *        *  *         *  *
     |  *  *  *     *  *  *      *  *  *
     |________________________________________  (... etc.)
        1  2  3     1  2  3      1  2  3        (... etc.)
	
           c1          c2           c3          (... etc.)


I have been slogging away with -graph bar- and have gotten no farther 
than the inelegant and unsatisfying method of generating three 
variables from each variable (measuring the count of each category) and 
using

  graph bar (count) all-of-these-variables

or


  graph bar (count) three-at-a-time
and then

  graph combine these-seven-graphs

But surely there is a better way.  Thanks in advance for any help.

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Richard Sherman
Department of Political Science, Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands
http://homepage.mac.com/richard.sherman/

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