Saving table behind histogram

[Edith Lancaster]

I am using a histogram, and I want to save a table underlying the graph.

for instance:

sysuse auto
hist weight

I want to then have the table behind this chart. The reason is that I want to graph the portion only of this histogram (say for bins above 3,000) on a separate graph that combines other components as well.

hist weight if weight>3000

does not do what I want, because that produces density for values over 3,000. I want to have density for all values, but then plot only a truncated density. How can this be done? If I had the table from the original histogram, I could then graph subset from that.

I thought serset would do it, but that produces empty data.

[Nick Cox]

SJ-5-2 gr0014 . . . . . . . Stata tip 20: Generating histogram bin variables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. A. Harrison
Q2/05 SJ 5(2):280--281 (no commands)
tip illustrating the use of twoway__histogram_gen for
creation of complex histograms and other graphs or tables

https://www.stata-journal.com/articl...article=gr0014

Example code:

sysuse auto, clear
hist weight, start(0) width(500)
twoway__histogram_gen weight, width(500) start(0) gen(y x)
list y x if !missing(y, x)
set scheme s1color
twoway bar y x if x > 3000, barw(500) bfcolor(none)

[Maarten Buis]

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf...867X0500500213

[Edith Lancaster]

Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for.