Dear Statalist
A few hours ago, I posted a mail entitled "Too much time to draw a graph". I could draw a histogram in a second by dropping the value label for the variable. I have not experienced the phenomenon before verion 11.
Thank you for comments on the problem.
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. desc value
storage display value
variable name type format label variable label
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value float %10.0g value value
. label list value
value:
-1 minus
999999999 plus/minus
. histogram value if itemcode==4
(bin=23, start=3.5999999, width=2.2782609)
--Break--
r(1);
*** The graph did not appear. ***********
. label drop value
. histogram value if itemcode==4
(bin=23, start=3.5999999, width=2.2782609)
**** The graph appeared in a second. ************
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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:17:40 +0900
From: Shoji TOKUNAGA <[email protected]>
Subject: st: Too much time to draw a graph
Dear Stata users,
I have a problem on drawing a graph with my Stata. It takes too much time.
I am running Stata 11/MP on Japanese version of Windows XP.
After I input a line of histogram command on the command window, I cannot get the graph even after 10 minutes. The data has only 4445 records with around 10 variables.
Do someone share a similar problem? Is it a unique problem to Japanese version of Window XP, or common to "slow" PC? My note PC has a dual core CPU (Centrino system) of 1 GHz.
. histogram value if itemcode == 3
(bin=23, start=7.8000002, width=.38695655)
.... long time passing .....
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