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st: RE: hbar & labels
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
st: RE: hbar & labels
Date
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:37:04 +0000
It sounds to me as if you would be better off with a -histogram-.
The presumption of -graph bar- (which you use in your code) and of -hbar- (which you refer to) is in essence that you have a breakdown by categorical variables, which you will want to see named.
. histogram age [w=totpop], discrete freq
is a start. You can control labels very easily with that.
Nick
[email protected]
María Edo
I have a horizontal graph bar in which each bar represents the total
population for a certain age (from 10 to 99 years).
Labels are too many (10 to 99) and make the graph look messy.
I would like to reduce the number of labels that appear in the graph,
for instance, only multiples of 5 (10, 15, 20, ....99)
My code is the following:
input age totpop
10 100
11 200
12 150
13 300
14 220
15 330
end
graph bar totot, over(age, label(alternate labsize(*.5)) )
Let´s say, in this small dataset case, I would only like the labels
"10" and "15" to appear.
I am sure there is a trivial way of achieving this, but I haven't been
able to find it.
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