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RE: st: Precision and ordering issue in histograms titles


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Precision and ordering issue in histograms titles
Date   Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:59:24 -0000

One answer is to be found in a concurrent thread: 

. gen SX1 = string(X1, "%02.1f")

. twoway histogram mpg, by(SX1) 


Nick 
[email protected] 

MA V
 
> Svend replied:
> 
> This is a precision problem. Try to declare X double precision:
> 
>    sysuse auto
>    gen double X=0.8-foreign
>    twoway histogram mpg , by(X)
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Unfortunately in my case this does not seem to work...
> Suppose you do
> 
> sysuse auto, clear
> gen X=0.8-foreign
> gen double X1=X
> twoway histogram mpg , by(X1)
> 
> this still gives histograms with not so pretty titles...
> 
> How can I create histograms by X, with nice titles, and 
> without losing the 
> order of the histograms?
> 

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