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RE: st: histogram marker_label_options
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: histogram marker_label_options
Date
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:29:29 +0100
You might say that, but I couldn't possibly comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6nyAFiBMkc
Nick
[email protected]
Niemierko, Andrzej
Thanks, Nick. It's a fine working work-around. I guess the option to
control format of hight labels in histogram plots is just an easy to fix
omission by StataCorp.
On 6/18/12 9:44 PM, "Nick Cox" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Apparently not. Here is one work-around:
>
>sysuse auto, clear
>
>preserve
>
>clonevar mpg2 = mpg
>replace mpg2 = 1 + 2 * floor(mpg/2)
>contract mpg2, percent(percent)
>gen spercent = string(percent, "%2.1f")
>twoway bar percent mpg2, barw(2) bstyle(histogram) ///
>|| scatter percent mpg2, ms(i) mlab(spercent) mlabpos(12) ///
>yla(, ang(h) format(%2.0f)) legend(off)
>
>restore
>
>
>
>On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Niemierko, Andrzej
><[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is it possible to change the default numeric format for hight labels
>>when plotting a histogram with y-axis expressed in percent and with
>>added hight labels shown above each bar?
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