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Re: st: hbar & labels
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David Elliott <[email protected]>
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Re: st: hbar & labels
Date
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:32:08 -0300
Many people have been bitten by this property of -graph bar-.
Fundamentally, -graph bar- and -graph hbar- are designed to work over
categorical data. While you have ages 10-99, as far as the bar
routine is concerned your categories could just as well have been red,
orange, ... indigo, violet. The reason -graph bar- doesn't let you
use a xlabel(10(5)100) is that it is not Cartesian graph and the axis
cannot be treated as if it were numeric - it has to assume every
category is important and must be displayed on the axis.
D C Elliott
On 21 March 2011 09:48, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- 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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