--- "Mak, Timothy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I had a hunch that Stata graphics is programmable. However, as Sergiy
> pointed out, the language is undocumented.
That is wrong: the graphics manual of Stata contains 618 pages, how
much more documentation do you want? Actually, the answer is probably
less documentation and more a getting started guide. Well, that exists
too: http://www.stata-press.com/books/vgsg.html
> As there is I believe no course on offer in Stata on graphics
> programming either, I don't really know where one can start.
You can buy the book I refered to above. If you want to get started now
than the best starting point is typing in Stata -help twoway-.
> Another point is that the graphical language in Stata is again
> different from Stata script language. So altogether, if you want to
> master Stata, you need to master 3 languages. Expertise in usual
> programming in R, however, would help you a long way in programming
> for R graphics.
That does not correspond with my experience in both Stata and R, I see
the -twoway- commands as just one of the commands you can use in Stata
and not as a separate language.
> Finally, although you may have already seen this, check out:
> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/
>
> It may be that all these can be reproduced in Stata, but my feeling
> is that the code would be more complicated, but I would gladly be
> proved wrong!
I probably had bad luck as the first source I opened takes more than 5
sceens! I would not call that easy... Others I have opened seemed more
reasonable, but not more so than I would expect Stata code to look.
-- Maarten
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