Re: st: hbar & labels

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Mon, 21/3/11, María Edo wrote:
> I have a horizontal graph bar in which each bar represents
> the total population for a certain age (from 10 to 99 years).
> Labels are too many (10 to 99) and make the graph look
> messy.
> I would like to reduce the number of labels that appear in
> the graph, for instance, only multiples of 5 (10, 15, 20, 
> ....99)

The solution is probably to rephrase the command as a 
-twoway bar- comand:

*--------- begin example ---------
clear
input age totpop
10  100
11  200
12  150
13  300
14  220
15  330
end

twoway bar totpop age, /// 
       ylab(10(5)15)   ///
       xlab(0(100)400) ///
       horizontal
*--------- end example ------------
 
Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
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Germany

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