Re: st: RE: RE: Graph bar with label wtih % symbol at the top of each bar

[Marcos Vinicius <bioestatistico@inbox.com>]

Hello Phil
Thank you your advice.
MArcos.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: philclayton@internode.on.net
> Sent: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:48:35 +1000
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: RE: RE: Graph bar with label wtih % symbol at the top of
> each bar
> 
> Just a note of caution - the bars are numbered from 1 to n, left to
> right. In my example below those numbers corresponded exactly with the
> levels of rep78, but that often won't be the case. So you need to be
> careful that you label the correct bars.
> 
> Phil
> 
> On 11/05/2012, at 9:39 AM, Phil Clayton wrote:
> 
>> On 11/05/2012, at 8:21 AM, David Radwin wrote:
>>> ... I don't think you can get percentage symbols to show as bar labels
>>> without the graph editor
>> 
>> You can, however, invoke the graph editor from within your do-file to
>> automate the process of changing the bar labels to percentages. Here's a
>> simple example:
>> 
>> ------- begin example -------
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> graph bar (mean) foreign, over(rep78) blabel(bar) ///
>> 	ytitle(% foreign) ylab(0 .2 "20" .4 "40" .6 "60" .8 "80" 1 "100")
>> 
>> * for each level of rep78, replace the proportion in the bar label with
>> a %
>> foreach rep of numlist 1/5 {
>> 	sum foreign if rep78==`rep', meanonly
>> 	local lab: di %1.0f 100*r(mean)
>> 	_gm_edit .Graph.plotregion1.barlabels[`rep'].text = {}
>> 	_gm_edit .Graph.plotregion1.barlabels[`rep'].text.Arrpush `lab'%
>> }
>> 
>> * now re-draw the graph with the new labels
>> graph display Graph
>> -------end example -------
>> 
>> Of course, if you gave your graph a name then you should use that name
>> rather than Graph in the _gm_edit and -graph display- commands.
>> 
>> How to determine the commands to use? If you record your edits using the
>> GUI graph editor, you can open the recording file (which is just a text
>> file) and see what's been recorded.
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> 
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