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| From | Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | RE: st: Catplot problem |
| Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:33:19 +0000 |
It looks like it is. It was just that I had 9 categories and the labels were mixed up and I could not distinguish it. Thanks for your help Neo -----Original Message----- From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox Sent: 21 January 2014 14:17 To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Subject: Re: st: Catplot problem This works for me . sysuse auto (1978 Automobile Data) . which catplot, all d:/njc/ado/stbplus\c\catplot.ado *! 2.0.2 NJC 10 December 2010 . gen himpg = mpg > 20 . catplot himpg foreign, by(rep78) So, as suggested, catplot var1 var2, by(var3) is legal. Nick njcoxstata@gmail.com On 21 January 2014 14:00, Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Thanks Nick for the quick answer > > This one works > catplot category sex agegroup > > but not this one > catplot category sex, by(agegroup) > > The result for the second one is as: > catplot category, by(agegroups) > > So it is like it misses the sex variable there > > Also in the first one > catplot category sex agegroups > it will give the results as in a histrogram from and not separate > small graphs on the same plot region > > It does in a way solve my problem though so help you very much > > Neo > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Cox > Sent: 21 January 2014 13:40 > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu > Subject: Re: st: Catplot problem > > The limitation here is not that of -catplot- (SSC) but of the -graph- commands it calls, which allow only one variable in a -by()- option. > > The help for -catplot- gives examples relevant to your needs. > > catplot category sex agegroup > > is a legal call, as is > > catplot category sex, by(agegroup) > > Nick > njcoxstata@gmail.com > > > On 21 January 2014 13:34, Neophytos Stylianou <neophytos.stylianou@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: >> Dear Statalist users, >> >> I have a problem with plotting a graph. >> >> I am using Stata 12. >> >> I have a categorical string variable which I want to graph as a bar chart based on each category percentage (below is the tablulation of the variable) >> CATEGORY Freq. Percent Cum. >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 01 Accidental: recreation | 25,096 35.72 35.72 >> 02 Accidental: work related | 8,602 12.24 47.96 >> 03 Accidental: not work related | 15,459 22.00 69.97 >> 04 Accidental: unspecified | 14,815 21.09 91.05 >> 05 Assault | 1,244 1.77 92.82 >> 06 Self inflicted | 1,616 2.30 95.12 >> 07 Suicidal | 195 0.28 95.40 >> 08 NAI of child | 213 0.30 95.70 >> 09 Arson | 119 0.17 95.87 >> 98 other | 1,486 2.12 97.99 >> 99 unknown | 1,413 2.01 100.00 >> --------------------------------+----------------------------------- >> Total | 70,258 100.00 >> >> Unfortunately Stata won't do it with its graphics options so I used -catplot- which is a user written program downloaded from SSC. >> >> I use the following command and it works perfectly >> >> catplot category, percent >> >> What I want is to have it BY 2 other variables (sex, agegroup) >> >> So I am trying to use the command: >> >> catplot category, percent by(sex agegroup ) >> >> But it says too many variables specified r(103). >> >> It looks like catplot is able to plot a variable restricted to only one by variable. >> >> Is there another way of plotting the graph I want? >> * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/