Re: st: changing bar order on twoway bar chart

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

The essence of the problem is (likely to be that) you need a variable  
-- say -axis2- -- that defines the order of the bars even if you need  
to type in yourself as 1,2,3,4,5...

Nick

On 18 Sep 2012, at 19:14, Ben Cooper <ben.cooper@wustl.edu> wrote:

> I have a graph dilemma that I can not solve. I have successfully  
> used the syntax below from the URL (http://www.survey-design.com.au/Stata%20Graphs.html 
> ) to create a two-way horizontal bar chart depicting odds ratios and  
> CIs above and below the value of 1.
>
> twoway bar  estimate axis, base(1) horizontal barw(.70) color("0 0  
> 192") scheme(s1color) ///
>            xline(1) ylab(, valuelabel angle(0)) ||     ///
>            rcap min95 max95 axis, horizontal  lwidth(medthick) lcolor 
> ("255 127 0") msize(large) ///
>            title("Outcome: Disconnected")  ///
>            legend(order(1 "point estimate" 2 "95% CI") pos(6))
>
> The problem is that Stata sorts the bars in order of the magnitude  
> of the odds ratio and this simply will not work for my project. I  
> know I can do custom bar sorting with the 'graph hbar x, over(y)'  
> command but then I lose the ability to use the rcap option for error  
> bars and the base(1) option to set the bars starting at 1 (since  
> they are ORs). I have tried creating each bar separately and putting  
> all on one graph but Stata still continues to sort the bars based on  
> the value in the variable estimate. I certainly like all the  
> features of the twoway bar approach, except this one issue of not  
> being able to sort the bars.
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