Re: st: RE: Stacked Histogram

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Apologies for not responding sooner, but I was flying yesterday.  From 
our nation's capital, let me say your solution works beautifully.  
Thank you very much.

Yes, I agree, I only used it for a few (two) categories.  Probably get 
too confusing for too many more.

Thanks, again,

m.p.

Quoting Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>:


> The generic problem I think of here as "the way ahead is -bar-red",
> meaning that -graph bar- or -histogram- doesn't do it, so what is
> to be done? The answer is (usually) to make your own with -twoway bar-
> as a basis.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> sysuse auto, clear
>
> twoway__histogram_gen mpg if foreign, gen(freq_foreign x) freq 
> start(0) width(2)
>
> twoway__histogram_gen mpg if !foreign, gen(freq_domestic x2) freq 
> start(0) width(2)
>
> qui gen freq = freq_domestic + freq_foreign
>
> twoway bar freq_domestic x if freq < ., barw(2) bcolor(blue) xsc(r(10 
> .)) || ///
> rbar freq_domestic freq x2 if freq < ., barw(2) bcolor(red) ///
> legend(order(1 "Domestic" 2 "Foreign") pos(11) col(1) ring(0)) ///
> xtitle("`: var label mpg'") ytitle(Frequency) xla(10(5)40) yla(, ang(h)) ///
> xsc(r(10 .))
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