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From   "Martin Weiss" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: labels on bar graphs
Date   Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:24:16 +0200

Well, obviously I hit a sore spot with my "straw man", given that it
attracted a few replies... Maybe I should have turned that into a new thread
though, to keep Rich`s other concerns alive. Sorry for that.

Martin Weiss
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank de Libero
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: labels on bar graphs

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Rich originally asked for help not only to display "%" but much more. That's
how I read his message (below). Then Martin (see below Rich's message)
introduces what seems to be a straw man:

[Why should users be forced] go to such lengths for a mundane task like
labeling with percentages...

And the thread then went adrift given the general frustration (including
mine) about not having an enhanced -format- that includes "%". But as I read
Rich's original post, he was asking for a method that helped automate the
placement and value of the label, and then attaching a "%". The "clever
solutions" were not so much about displaying a "%" as they were about where
to display it and automatically display the value. A simple change in the
-format- command or equivalent would not solve all that. I think the
subsequent aspersions on Stata are unfair and stray from the original
question.

..Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Goldstein
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:53 PM
To: statalist
Subject: st: labels on bar graphs

Hi:

I need to produce a sizable number of bar graphs for a client.  The 
client wants the y-axis to be labeled as, e.g., "15%" rather than as, 
e.g., .15.  The range of proportions for these graphs varies quite a bit 
(from a max of less than .05 to a max of over .2) so I don't want to 
force them all to be the same.

After seeing a graph, it is easy enough to use the ylabel option to get 
what I want.  Given that I am generally willing to live with Stata's 
automatic choice of tick marks, is there a way to automatically get 
labels in the form I want (e.g., "15%") rather than the way Stata wants 
(e.g., .15)?

Thanks,

Rich
=================================================
All these clever solutions have a funny tendency to remind me of one thing:
a software that takes prides in its graph capabilities should not force
users to go to such lengths for a mundane task like labeling with
percentages... 

Martin Weiss


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