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Re: st: RE: Line break in a character string for a bar chart label
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: RE: Line break in a character string for a bar chart label
Date
Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:08:29 +0100
Just to add that although I lean wherever possible to programmable
solutions, the Graph Editor can be really helpful for fixing over-long
lines.
Nick
[email protected]
On 30 July 2013 23:04, Radwin, David <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is another alternative that doesn't require relabeling the dataset
> but could lead to some quite prolix code:
>
> . graph hbar (mean) price, over(foreign, relabel(0 ///
> `" "A really long label that has to" "split over onto the next
> line" "'))
>
> David
> --
> David Radwin
> Senior Research Associate
> Education Studies Division
> RTI International
> 2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 800
> Berkeley, CA 94704
> Phone: 510-665-8274
>
> www.rti.org
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Data Analytics Corp.
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 2:02 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: st: RE: Line break in a character string for a bar chart
>> label
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Not sure about this since the label is in a variable in the data set
> (I
>> forgot to mention that). But I can always change the data set. I'll
>> try it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Walt
>>
>> ________________________
>>
>> Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D.
>> Data Analytics Corp.
>> 44 Hamilton Lane
>> Plainsboro, NJ 08536
>> ________________________
>> (V) 609-936-8999
>> (F) 609-936-3733
>> [email protected]
>> www.dataanalyticscorp.com
>> _____________________________________________________
>>
>>
>> On 7/30/2013 4:52 PM, Radwin, David wrote:
>> > Walt,
>> >
>> > Like this?
>> >
>> > . sysuse auto
>> >
>> > . label define origin 0 ///
>> > `" "A really long label that has to" "split over onto the next
>> > line" "', modify
>> >
>> > . graph hbar price, over(foreign)
>> >
>> > David
>> > --
>> > David Radwin
>> > Senior Research Associate
>> > Education Studies Division
>> > RTI International
>> > 2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 800
>> > Berkeley, CA 94704
>> > Phone: 510-665-8274
>> >
>> > www.rti.org
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
>> >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Data Analytics Corp.
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:36 PM
>> >> To: [email protected]
>> >> Subject: st: Line break in a character string for a bar chart label
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I created a horizontal bar chart of magazine readership. The
> labels
>> > for
>> >> each bar are combinations of the magazines. Unfortunately, some
> labels
>> >> are too long (too many magazines for a bar) and are cut-off or they
>> > just
>> >> don't look nice. I'd like to insert a line break in the character
>> >> strings so that the labels would appear on two (or more) lines.
> Some
>> >> programming languages, such as R, use "\n" to break a line. Does
>> > Stata
>> >> (13 for Windows) have something like this? Or is there a way to
> tell
>> >> Stata to wrap a line?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Walt
>> >>
>> >> ________________________
>> >>
>> >> Walter R. Paczkowski, Ph.D.
>> >> Data Analytics Corp.
>> >> 44 Hamilton Lane
>> >> Plainsboro, NJ 08536
>> >> ________________________
>> >> (V) 609-936-8999
>> >> (F) 609-936-3733
>> >> [email protected]
>> >> www.dataanalyticscorp.com
>> >> _____________________________________________________
>
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