Re: st: Graphs by and different axis scales [Stata 9]

["R.E. De Hoyos" <redeho@hotmail.com>]

That solved the problem, thanks a lot.
Rafa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Merryman" <scott.merryman@gmail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: st: Graphs by and different axis scales [Stata 9]



> There are several suboptions that can be used with by() (see -help by 
> option-)
>
> I believe you want the -yrescale- option.
>
> For example,
>
> . sysuse auto
> (1978 Automobile Data)
>
> . replace mpg = mpg*1000 if fore == 1
> mpg was int now long
> (22 real changes made)
>
> . scatter mpg price, by(fore, yrescale)
>
>
>
> On 6/26/07, R.E. De Hoyos <redeho@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am plotting a two-way graph of varX and varY by years (4 years):
> >
> >    . tw scatter varY varX, by(year)
> >
> > Y varies so much across the 4 time periods that Stata assigns a very 
> > large
> > range of variation to Y, say from -100 to +100 for all four years. For 
> > any
> > given year, the variation in Y is much less than -100 to +100, so I would
> > like to have a year-specific axis range. An obvious way of doing this is 
> > to
> > compute separate graphs for each year:
> >
> >  foreach y in 1 2 3 4 {
> >    tw scatter varY varX if year==`y'
> > }
> >
> > Nevertheless I would like to have the four graphs in a single object 
> > (.eps).
> > Is there a way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rafa
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