On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Fred Wolfe wrote:
> Often enough I find myself making ad hoc graphs, by which I mean graphs
> that are not a part of a saved do or ado file. Sometimes I come back to
> those graphs and want to alter something. However, the graph statement no
> longer exists
>
I often use the pull-down menus to "fiddle" with a graph (which I assume
is what you are doing). The graph command that is produced is displayed
in the Stata results window. I copy the command from the window, and put
it in a .do file. That way I can recreate the exact graph at a future
date (obviously I have to add commands to read in the dataset, transform
and/or select the data, etc. in front of the graph command). As well,
this makes it easier to change something in the graph statement.
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