Circrplot

[Aria Montgomery]

Hi,

I am trying to put together some circular statistics using:

circrplot (variable), height(2) width(5)

However, it's saying that height command isn't allowed. Has anyone got any ideas why it's not working?

Cheers,
A.

[Nick Cox]

That's community-contributed, so you are asked to explain where you got it from. The version on SSC starts

. ssc type circrplot.ado
*! NJC 2.1.0 6 August 2004 
* NJC 2.0.1 2 April 2004 
* NJC 1.3.2 23 December 1998
* NJC 1.3.1 16 December 1998
* NJC 1.3.0 9 May 1997
* NJC 1.2.2 30 October 1996
* raw data plot for circular data with spikes
program circrplot
        version 8.0
        syntax varname(numeric) [if] [in] [, ///
        BY(str) SUBtitle(str asis) round(int 1) RESULTant(str asis) ///
        CTICk(numlist) CLAbel(str asis) TICKlength(real 0.05) fudge(real 1) * ] 

so, as Stata is telling you, no height() option (not command!) is allowed.

Knowing the author, I suspect that he may have changed the syntax over the 20+ years that this command has been in existence, so telling us where you got the ado and help files (and when they were last changed) may throw light. So, go

which circrplot, all

and look inside the help file to see it there is a date at the top.