Re: st: RE: "overlaying" Stacked bar charts

[Devra Golbe <dgolbe@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Nick!  Rearranging the data was key.  I couldn't figure it out 
using -reshape- or -stack-, but the code below gets me what I want.

Devra

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webuse citytemp, clear
collapse (mean) heat cool tempja tempju, by(region)
expandcl 2, cluster(region) gener(reg2)
forvalues  n = 1(2)7 {
   replace tempjan=. if reg2==`n'
   replace tempjuly=. if reg2==`n'
   } 
forvalues  n = 2(2)8 {
   replace heatdd=. if reg2==`n'
   replace cooldd=. if reg2==`n'
   }   
label define reglbl 1 "NE" 2 "NE"  3 "N Central" 4 "N Central" 5 "South" 
6 "South" 7  "West"    8  "West"
label values reg2 reglbl   
graph bar tempjan tempjuly heatdd cooldd, over(reg2) stack   
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on 2/17/2010 2:06 PM Nick Cox said:
> -graph bar- does not permit overlay. That is a -twoway- concept. That
> you know. 
>
> If you attempted to translate -graph bar- into an equivalent -twoway-
> statement, you would need to do more work. For example, stacking bars
> calls for -twoway rbar- rather than -twoway bar- and you still need to
> do more work to specify the cumulated coordinates. And -twoway bar- does
> not permit -over()-, as indicated. 
>
> I'd imagine you're better off staying with -graph bar-. But if I
> understand you correctly you'd need to -reshape- or -stack- your data so
> that you could then call -graph bar- with two separate -over()- options.
>
>
> Nick 
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 
>
> Devra Golbe
>
> Is there a way to "overlay" stacked bar charts?  That is, using the 
> citytemp data I can go
>
> webuse citytemp
> graph bar tempjan tempjuly, over(region) stack
> graph bar  heatdd cooldd, over(region) stack
>
> and get two separate graphs each over region.  What I would like is one 
> graph, with the temp bar for each region paired with the corresponding 
> degree-day bar.   I guessed the code would be something like the 
> following pseudo-code, which results in an error:
>
> twoway (bar tempjan tempjuly ) (bar  heatdd cooldd ), over(region) stack
> option over() not allowed
> r(198);
>   


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