Filling 'hole' with legend when combining uneven number of graphs

[Zach Goldberg]

Greetings,

I'm running Stata 15.1 on OSX. Using the grc1leg command, I've combined 5 different graphs while generating a common legend. However, the legend is positioned under the 5 panels, with the 6th panel left 'blank'. If possible, I'd like to situate the legend in that blank 6th panel. This is what I'm currently looking at:

This is my code:

grc1leg  "/Users/ZG/Documents/NHMS-RESPECT.gph"  "/ZG/Documents/NHMS-
> SERVICE.gph" "/Users/ZG/Documents/NHMS-STUPID.gph" "/Users/ZG/Documents/NHM
> S-AFRAID.gph" "/Users/ZG/Documents/NHMS-HARASSED.gph", iscale(*.9)

Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Scott Merryman]

In the graph editor under Legend Properties on the Advanced tab there is an option for position offset which will move the legend box.

sysuse auto,clear

scatter mpg price, name(gr1,replace)
scatter weight price, name(gr2, replace)
scatter length price, name(gr3, replace)

grc1leg gr1 gr2 gr3
gr_edit legend.xoffset = 35
gr_edit legend.yoffset = 35

[Zach Goldberg]

Thanks! Followup question: 1) How do I adjust the size of the legend? 2) How do I eliminate the empty space at the bottom?

Cheers!

[Scott Merryman]

There are several different options to change the size of various characteristics of the legend but the most direct is to use size() - part of the text box options. To remove to space at the bottom try using the ring(0) option with grc1leg to place the legend within the plotarea. Example:

sysuse auto,clear

scatter mpg trunk length turn disp weight price, legend(size(*.5) col(1)) name(gr1,replace)
scatter mpg trunk length turn disp weight price, name(gr2, replace) legend(off)
scatter mpg trunk length turn disp weight price, name(gr3, replace) legend(off)

grc1leg gr1 gr2 gr3, legendfrom(gr1) ring(0) position(4) 

gr_edit legend.xoffset = -15
gr_edit legend.yoffset = 15