pause loop

[Luca Campanelli]

Dear Stata users,
I’d like to make graphs using a loop and pause after each graph, then advance to the next graph using the keyboard or the mouse.
I’m not sure why the following code doesn’t work; what happens is that after each graph I see -more- in the results window but Stata doesn’t pause and the graphs are made one after the other with no break.
Isn’t -more- supposed to pause the program after each graph?

sysuse auto

* graphs
set more on
foreach var of varlist price mpg headroom trunk weight length {
graph box `var'
more
}

Thank you.
Luca

PS I’m running Stata 14.1 on Windows 7 (Stata installed on the University server)

[Jeph Herrin]

Your code works for me. Also using 14.1 on Win7.

cheers,
Jeph

[Nick Cox]

When this happens to me it seems that I have pressed the space bar too many times somehow.

On a different note, if you like to do things like that, check out

multqplot

SJ-12-3 gr0053 . Speaking Stata: Axis practice, or what goes where on a graph
(help multqplot if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J. Cox
Q3/12 SJ 12(3):549--561
discusses variations on what goes on each axis of a two-way
plot; provides multiple quantile plots

multqplot  price mpg headroom trunk weight length

and

combineplot

http://www.statalist.org/forums/foru...ailable-on-ssc

combineplot price mpg headroom trunk weight length: graph box @y

The last example (for Luca's choice of variables) exposes how little detail is often given with default box plots. I am happy that is so. That's the justification for quantile-box plots as shown by multqplot. (The boxes are there, just subdued: the lines for cumulative probability 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and for the corresponding quantiles are all added.)

[Luca Campanelli]

Thank you very much for your answers.
Given that there was no error in my code, I tried again, and it worked after restarting Stata. I really don’t know why the first time it didn’t work, the code was the same.
Nick, thank you very much for your comment and for pointing to multqplot and combineplot, I appreciate it.

Luca

[Nick Cox]

That sort of little thing bites me often. As said, it seems to boil down to some mistyping somewhere.