st: RE: RE: Features for Stata 14

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

Nick,

I've been bitten by #6 too, most recently in writing -weakiv-.  This is a program that calls Stata's graph commands.  There's an option which lets users pass additional options to the graph command, which works for everything ... except limiting the range of data axes.  If the user wants to do that, it has to be passed in a separate option and fed to the graph command using -if-.  It's only an annoyance in this case, but it is a bit annoying.

--Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: 10 September 2013 08:29
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: RE: Features for Stata 14
> 
> Standard Stata logic is that you can do this easily: you just need to exclude data
> with an -if- condition. That's force, it's explicit as what you've done; how is it
> deficient?
> 
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
> 
> 
> On 10 September 2013 03:55, Timothy Mak <tshmak@hku.hk> wrote:
> 
> > 6. Allow users to over-ride data-dependent axis limits. Currently, we cannot
> force the axes to have a smaller range than the actual data range. But surely if
> people want such a graph, it should be possible. A warning message may be all
> that is necessary.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Timothy Mak
> Sent: 10 September 2013 03:55
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: RE: Features for Stata 14
> 
> Sorry for jumping on this Features bandwagon rather late.
> 
> But my wishes are:
> 
> 1. A system macro that gives the directory of the executing do-file. This feature
> has been asked for in a number of recent posts, and it would make organizing
> do-files so much easier. see e.g. http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-
> 07/msg00667.html
> 2. A dock-able do-file editor and graphics windows, like Matlab.
> 3. Improvements to graphics, in particular, a better -graph combine- command,
> and transparency. See e.g. http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-
> 06/msg00967.html
> 4. More flexible legend keys: if you draw a -twoway- graph with both a -
> connect- and a -rcap- option, e.g. for displaying confidence intervals, your
> legend key can only refer to either the -connect- line or the -rcap- line, but not
> both at the same time. Likewise with -connect- and -rarea-.
> 5. Support for accents such as \hat{}, and \dot{} in graphics (+ UNICODE
> support?)
> 6. Allow users to over-ride data-dependent axis limits. Currently, we cannot
> force the axes to have a smaller range than the actual data range. But surely if
> people want such a graph, it should be possible. A warning message may be all
> that is necessary.
> 
> 7. Allow axes to include "chinks" to indicate a change of scale.
> 
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of William Buchanan
> Sent: 02 September 2013 23:00
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: st: Features for Stata 14
> 
> Since it is still fairly early in the development cycle for the next release of
> Stata, I thought it might be good to start a thread about things that people
> would like to see added to the next release.
> 
> I would definitely be interested in seeing some updates/expansions to the
> graphics capabilities of Stata.  Alpha level blending is something that has come
> up several times and adding interactive graphics would be a great addition to
> the existing commands (e.g., functionality that is common in Tableau and
> several packages in R).
> 
> Documentation of the lower level graphics commands to make it easier for
> users to extend the graphics capabilities.
> 
> Latent Class Analysis and Latent Transition Analysis with support for all types of
> manifest variables.
> 
> Multivariate mixed-effects models
> 
> Exploratory Factor Analysis with nominal/ordinal/non-normal variables
> 
> Improved debugging tools (e.g., stepwise evaluator for programs, more
> informative error messages, etc...)
> 
> New ways to generate samples of data with specified correlation
> structures/distributions
> 
> I'm curious to see what other people have to say on this topic as well.
> 
> Billy
> 
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