I think you might need to go a long way round and use
-twoway__histogram_gen- followed by -string(,)- to create a
string variable that you could use as marker labels. On the face of it,
a -format()- option or suboption would seem natural in this context.
On the general point, I quite often do something similar (although I
usually then also suppress a magnitude scale, which is then
unnecessary).
With -tabplot- from SSC you can do this:
. sysuse auto, clear
. gen one = 1
. tabplot one rep78, showval(format(%9.2f) offset(0.02))
percent ytitle("") ysc(off)
-tabplot- won't let you put values at the top of bars, but the code
shows that the problem is programmable.
Nick
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Ronan Conroy
A colleague was producing some bar charts using -histogram-, using
the -addlabel- option to add the actual values at the top of each
bar. (I find this a futile exercise, but some folks like it.)
He found that his labels were being added with two or even three
places of decimals. For the life of me I cannot find how to use the -
histogram- graph dialogue to control the display format. Can it be done?
P Before printing, think about the environment
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