I answered the previous questions on Friday.
. graph bar (asis) SexRatio if race==1 SexRatio if race==2, over(age)
is just illegal, as you can't have two separate -if- conditions
and you can't split a variable list with an -if- condition.
So it violates the syntax specified in the help.
A more interesting point is that the problems Scott compares
are not of the same form.
Every station has a January and a July temperature in the
dataset referred to. But every group is one race or the other, and not both.
You could see your way to separate variables easily by using -separate-;
that's what -separate- is for. But I still don't think -graph bar- would cough up
as it is expecting a different data structure.
The underlying issue is that -graph bar- is not as general as users would
like it to be. You'd think that it was a way of drawing every bar graph
known to man, woman or cyborg. Ha! Wrong. As has often been stressed on
this list, there can come a point when you need to back out and try -twoway
bar- instead. That really is pretty much as general as you would like to be.
-textbarplot- recently posted on SSC offers an easy wrapper for that.
Nick
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> Tacking this question onto my previous ones - in the help
> sections, I
> notice that what I'm attempting to do is done because the variables
> to be mapped onto the graph are actually different values. For
> instance, in this code:
>
> . graph bar (mean) tempjuly tempjan, over(region)
>
> This is from the help on -graph bar- from a datafile called -
> citytemp-. This produces exactly what I'm trying to do, where
> "region" in my case is "age", and the two variables side by side for
> each period are the white and black sex ratio. But, my data usually
> is coded 1 or 2 for race, and not actually separate variables
> altogether for race. In other words, if I had a variable called
> "bsr" for black sex ratio and "wsr" for white, then it'd be
> straightforward to reproduce the above as:
>
> . graph bar (asis) wsr bsr, over(age)
>
> But how do I accomplish the above if I use one variable (called
> "sexratio") which takes on two values (1 or 2 for white or black),
> and I wish to graph the white and black sex ratios side by side.
> When I do this:
>
> . graph bar (asis) SexRatio if race==1 SexRatio if race==2, over(age)
>
> I get an error that says, "invalid 'SexRatio' "
>
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