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From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: percentage label with legend |
Date | Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:50:55 +0100 |
"somewhere while googling" is a fairly vague reference, but the apparent contradiction can easily be resolved. -graph, pie- was the syntax before Stata 8; in Stata 8 upwards the commands webuse auto tabulate foreign, generate(f) graph7 f1 f2, pie will automatically produce labels with percents explicit. I wrote a -pieplot- (SSC) which is a convenience wrapper for -graph, pie- so that for example pieplot foreign, percent shows percents. However, it does not support what Tashi wants. In my view legends are at best necessary evils, so I try to lose them, not add more information to them. As in previous threads, this is all a matter of taste, but what Tashi is doing is in my view much better done using a bar or dot chart. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Eric Booth <eric.a.booth@gmail.com> wrote: > The command syntax is "graph pie [varlist]", not "graph [varlist], pie". See -help graph pie- > > *********! > webuse auto, clear > > tabulate foreign, generate(f) > > *manually changing the legend > graph pie f1 f2, plabel(_all percent) /// > legend(order(1 "Overridden Label and adding 50%" 2 "Overridden Label two")) > > > *automatically changing the lables > loc i = 1 > foreach x of varlist f? { > qui summarize `x', detail > loc a = string(`r(mean)'*100)+ "%" > loc j `" `j' `i' "`:var l `x'' `a'" "' > loc i `++i' > } > di `"`j'"' > > graph pie f1 f2, plabel(_all percent) /// > legend(order(`j')) > *********! On Apr 28, 2012, at 7:21 PM, tashi lama wrote: >> I am aware of stata's ability to create percentage labels on the slices. I am more interested to have my percentage labels side by side with the legends. I actually saw somewhere while googling where they used the following to create percentage labels on the legend >> >> webuse auto >> >> tabulate foreign, generate(f) >> >> graph f1 f2, pie >> >> I tried doing similar, but wasn't successful. I guess my question is if there is a way to create a label with the legends, not on the slices? Any lead will be highly appreciated. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/