how to ask stata to round the labels in a bar graph?

[Saleh Babazadeh]

Hi ,

I am using the following code to make a graph. but the decimals in the graph are annoying. is there a way to round the decimals in the label to the closest number?

#delimit ;
graph bar (sum) v012 ,over(province) blabel(total) name(mstril,replace) ylabel(, angle(horizontal)) bargap(10)
legend(label(1 "USAID factors") label(2 "SNIS factors"))
ytitle("CYP")
title("Male Sterilization CYP by quarter")
subtitle(" Apr 2013- Mar 2015")
note("Source: ASSP service statistices") ;
#delimit c

Thanks

[E. David Aja]

blabel(total, format(%9.0f))

[Nick Cox]

"decimals in the graph": where? I guess you mean on the y axis. Or perhaps in the bar labels.

It could well be that graph bar is just copying what you have specified previously as the display format for v012.

"closest number" is a number-theoretic enigma; I guess you mean some suitable close integer.

Spell out a suitable format in the argument to ylabel(): see document of format() linked to from help axis label options. Or, if relevant, do the same with blabel().

If this doesn't help enough, show us the graph and/or show us the results of

 
describe v012 
tabstat v012, s(sum) by(province)

[Saleh Babazadeh]

thanks David and Nick!

Sorry Nick for bad wording. yes I meant closest integer. the following worked very well. I needed to change format of labeling.
blabel(total, format(%9.0f)) ) worked very well.

[Collins Mukhala]

I am Collins Mukhala. I am working on a data set with multiple responses and want to graph using mrgraph and label the bars with percent results. I don't know how labeling bars is done using mrgaph. Can anyone who know help me. One of the graphs that I have plotted with mrgraph is here:

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