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From   Hiroshi Maeda <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Thanks => graph twoway bar horizontal vs. graph hbar
Date   Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:49:58 -0600

Thank you for your help, Drs. Nichols & Cox; you have solved my problems. Austin, I actually tried the -relabel- suboption inside -over- but it did not work, as you pointed out. I wonder why. I feel the -relabel- suboption should have solved my problem #2. Am I missing something or is this a problem in Stata? ---Hiroshi


Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:53:31 -0500
From: "Austin Nichols" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: st: graph twoway bar horizontal vs. graph hbar

(1) help region_options##remarks1
shows that the addition of the option
plotregion(margin(zero))
puts the bars against the axes.

(2) help graph bar##over_subopts
suggests the -relabel- option should make the labels disappear with
the addition of
relabel(3 " " 6 " " 9 " ")
as a suboption of over(), but it doesn't work. But this does:
relabel(3 "`: di char(160)'" 6 "`: di char(160)'" 9 "`: di char(160)'")
I believe.

On 3/3/06, Hiroshi Maeda <[email protected]> wrote:
1) How to eliminate a gap(space) between the y axis and the location
where bars begin in GRAPH_01, using the "graph twoway bar, horizontal"
command?
2) How to make the labels 3, 6, & 9 on the y axis (the categories intended
to be invisible for an aesthetic reason) disappear, using the "graph hbar"
command?

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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:59:38 -0000
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
Subject: st: RE: graph twoway bar horizontal vs. graph hbar

As it happens, I started work last night on
a rough-and-ready program in this territory
called -textbarplot-.

Re-creating your data (note the short-cuts)

#delimit ;
clear;
set obs 11;
gen TYPE_YEAR = _n;

lab define TYPE_YEAR 1 "General, 1900" 2 "General, 1930" 4 "Mental, 1900"
5 "Mental, 1930" 7 "TB, 1900" 8 "TB, 1930" 10 "OS, 1900" 11 "OS, 1930";
lab val TYPE_YEAR TYPE_YEAR;

gen AVE_NUM_BED=82 if TYPE_YEAR==1;
replace AVE_NUM_BED=81 if TYPE_YEAR==2;
replace AVE_NUM_BED=508 if TYPE_YEAR==4;
replace AVE_NUM_BED=780 if TYPE_YEAR==5;
replace AVE_NUM_BED=103 if TYPE_YEAR==7;
replace AVE_NUM_BED=130 if TYPE_YEAR==8;
replace AVE_NUM_BED=68 if TYPE_YEAR==10;
replace AVE_NUM_BED=60 if TYPE_YEAR==11;

I then went

. textbarplot TYPE_YEAR AVE_NUM_BED, plotregion(margin(zero))

which gets you much of the way there. (You can add further
options.)

As I have suggested various times in this list, for the
flexibility you want, -twoway bar, hor- is the way to
go, as I don't think -graph hbar- can solve your problem 2)
without creating further problems.

Your problem 1) is I think solved by the option above.

Note that -textbarplot- can be recast to a different
form by -recast(dot)-, -recast(dropline)-, -recast(spike)-
by courtesy of some cute Wigginsypokery.

Nick
[email protected]


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Hiroshi Maeda
University of Illinois at Chicago
[email protected]

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