By not so compact

[John Moffat]

Hi from New Zealand

I am getting frustrated with the by() option in graph dot. I have had to resort to using the graph editor-- hence not "reproducible" research tut! tut!

graph dot worm if para <12, over(aid) over(gp) ///
by(para, imargin(tiny)note("") style(compact) ///
noiyaxes xrescale iscale(*.8) ///
legend(ring(0) at(12))) ///
legend(col(3) rowg(*.5) colg(*.5) tit(Animal ID) ) ///
asyvars ytit("") lines(lw(thin))

The issue relates to over(gp) i.e. the "x-axis" over, not the "legend" over, over(aid)

As shown in the attached pic, I end up with the labels for the categorical groups being repeated for every sub graph - note using compact style. I have tried the various "[no]i..." but still no joy. So resort to removing them w ith the "hide" click

I have not posted any data - but i was hoping i am just missing something simple

[Jared Greathouse]

I'm not understanding the problem. The most I get is

The issue relates to over(gp) i.e. the "x-axis" over, not the "legend" over, over(aid)
As shown in the attached pic, I end up with the labels for the categorical groups being repeated for every sub graph - note using compact style.

but it doesn't really tell me what you expect Stata to give. And, without a data example (which we ask you to provide!!), nobody can work with it to diagnose the issue. Did you just want the leftmost labels?

[Scott Merryman]

The Graph Editor is reproducible if you record it. You can either play back the recording or you can call the recorded commands using gr_edit:

sysuse nlsw88,clear
graph dot wage,   over(race) over(south)  by(industry /// 
    ,imargin(tiny) note("") style(compact) ///
    noiyaxes xrescale iscale(*.8) ///
    legend(ring(0) at(12))) ///
    legend(col(3) rowg(*.5) colg(*.5) tit(ID) ) ///
    asyvars ytit("") lines(lw(thin)) name(gr,replace)
 
gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[2].draw_view.setstyle, style(no) 
gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[3].draw_view.setstyle, style(no) 
gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[4].draw_view.setstyle, style(no) 

gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[6].draw_view.setstyle, style(no) 
gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[7].draw_view.setstyle, style(no) 
gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[8].draw_view.setstyle, style(no) 

gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[10].draw_view.setstyle, style(no) 
gr_edit .plotregion1.grpaxis[11].draw_view.setstyle, style(no)

[John Moffat]

Josh. Thanks for the response and yes I only want the left most labels as with Scott's post above.. I wanted to achieve this without having to use gr edit.

Thanks Scott. I was not aware of the record commands with gr edit THANK YOU

FYI using Stata/SE 17