grc1leg ignoring aspect ratio

[paulvonhippel]

I'm using the grc1leg command and find I cannot change the aspect ratio with the ysize() and xsize() options. Below is some example code, borrowed from another post, that creates four graphs.

clear
input byte r_id str26 region float(period year) double(gfd shr kme klf)
1 "East Asia & Pacific"        1 1  8325.703482570614 221713507.51180354 312545535391.22266  9.884943733931932
1 "East Asia & Pacific"        2 2  9962.102881752555  291994199.0371205  374296140523.1998 10.281044165113197
2 "Europe & Central Asia"      1 1   24102.8204969368   538919571.786615 538401194443.77637 19.022858084454136
2 "Europe & Central Asia"      2 2  25799.98590965781  654494471.3396385  581745338410.1671 23.309416601936224
3 "Latin America & Caribbean"  1 1  9455.280580949593  80081604.26769644  76151826017.24394  6.093767684310448
3 "Latin America & Caribbean"  2 2   9545.11053660585 106220095.91957214  98404982310.05264  7.355575546132802
4 "Middle East & North Africa" 1 1  7373.541711250463   89946551.4761219  81922279949.52919 16.905612650025958
4 "Middle East & North Africa" 2 2 7777.9616878091565  99544773.86252138 106317425321.04172 19.484252374025836
5 "North America"              1 1  49559.27810369779           83961914       2.209272e+11  7.247645902684366
5 "North America"              2 2  53454.28768786681           98022165 270455750000.00006  7.239042277091585
6 "South Asia"                 1 1 1368.5156808676866  12190005.91249332        2.40586e+10  11.19949571592668
6 "South Asia"                 2 2 1780.9751084779448 23091459.198763825        3.49224e+10 10.671254320423737
7 "Sub-Saharan Africa"         1 1  1645.103030610854 38776587.938939884 29995171741.764538 10.925456728424516
7 "Sub-Saharan Africa"         2 2 1682.6993478548713  45598841.52158082  32372205773.37823  10.55520839362721
end
label values year fiveyr
label def fiveyr 1 "2010-2014", modify
label def fiveyr 2 "2015-2019", modify

local graphs
foreach var in gfd shr kme klf{
gr hbar `var', over(year) over(region) asyvars bar(1, color(red%50)) bar(2, color(blue%50))scheme(s1color) saving(`var', replace)
local graphs "`graphs' `var'.gph"
}

And now I combine the graphs using grc1leg, but the xsize() and ysize() options appear to have no effect.

grc1leg `graphs', scheme(s1color) ysize(9) xsize(6.5)

If instead I use the grc1leg2 command, the result is the same.

[Nick Cox]

https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...-year-averages gave an alternative solution, and I'm optimistic that it allows tuning of the aspect ratio.

[paulvonhippel]

Thanks, Nick. Are you referring to the solution you proposed in that other thread, using multidot instead of grc1leg?

[Nick Cox]

Indeed.

[paulvonhippel]

Unfortunately, there are other instances when multidot is not an option. Is there any way to get grc1leg to pay attention to ysize() and xsize()?

[paulvonhippel]

The problem is specific to the grc1leg command. The related graph combine command responds well to the xsize() and ysize() options -- e.g.,

 graph combine `graphs', scheme(s1color) ysize(9) xsize(6.5)

[Andrew Musau]

You may want to check out grc1leg2 by Mead Over, available from

net install grc1leg2.pkg, from (http://digital.cgdev.org/doc/stata/MO/Misc/)

[Jeff Pitblado (StataCorp)]

A work-around for this is to use graph display to redraw the graph after grc1leg produces the graph.

graph display, ysize(9) xsize(6.5)

We will look into why grc1leg is not respecting these options.

[paulvonhippel]

Thanks, Jeff Pitblado (StataCorp) !
Andrew Musau : Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately grc1leg2 has the same problem.

[Mead Over]

Thanks to paulvonhippel for pointing out that neither my -grc1leg2- nor its progenitor -grc1leg- (by Vince Wiggins (StataCorp) would accept the options -xsize(#)- and -ysize(#)-.

In response to this discussion, and building on Jeff Pitblado (StataCorp)'s suggestion to use -graph display-, I have updated -grc1leg2- to version 1.60 so that it now handles the options -xsize(#)- and -ysize(#)- as well as the other options of Stata's -graph display- command. Here's a modified version of paulvonhippel 's code that demonstrates some of the newly enabled options. Note that all of these options are available from -grc1leg2-'s dialog. The revised help file documents these options and includes an example of their application.

clear
cap graph drop _all

input byte r_id str26 region float(period year) double(gfd shr kme klf)
1 "East Asia & Pacific"        1 1  8325.703482570614 221713507.51180354 312545535391.22266  9.884943733931932
1 "East Asia & Pacific"        2 2  9962.102881752555  291994199.0371205  374296140523.1998 10.281044165113197
2 "Europe & Central Asia"      1 1   24102.8204969368   538919571.786615 538401194443.77637 19.022858084454136
2 "Europe & Central Asia"      2 2  25799.98590965781  654494471.3396385  581745338410.1671 23.309416601936224
3 "Latin America & Caribbean"  1 1  9455.280580949593  80081604.26769644  76151826017.24394  6.093767684310448
3 "Latin America & Caribbean"  2 2   9545.11053660585 106220095.91957214  98404982310.05264  7.355575546132802
4 "Middle East & North Africa" 1 1  7373.541711250463   89946551.4761219  81922279949.52919 16.905612650025958
4 "Middle East & North Africa" 2 2 7777.9616878091565  99544773.86252138 106317425321.04172 19.484252374025836
5 "North America"              1 1  49559.27810369779           83961914       2.209272e+11  7.247645902684366
5 "North America"              2 2  53454.28768786681           98022165 270455750000.00006  7.239042277091585
6 "South Asia"                 1 1 1368.5156808676866  12190005.91249332        2.40586e+10  11.19949571592668
6 "South Asia"                 2 2 1780.9751084779448 23091459.198763825        3.49224e+10 10.671254320423737
7 "Sub-Saharan Africa"         1 1  1645.103030610854 38776587.938939884 29995171741.764538 10.925456728424516
7 "Sub-Saharan Africa"         2 2 1682.6993478548713  45598841.52158082  32372205773.37823  10.55520839362721
end
label values year fiveyr
label def fiveyr 1 "2010-2014", modify
label def fiveyr 2 "2015-2019", modify

local graphs
local thisscheme s1mono

foreach var in gfd shr kme klf {
    gr hbar `var', over(year) over(region) asyvars scheme(`thisscheme') saving(`var', replace)
    local graphs `graphs' `var'.gph
    local thisscheme s1color
}

cap prog drop grc1leg2

*    Paul von Hippel's requested syntax, when component graphs have different graph schemes
grc1leg2 `graphs', ysize(9) xsize(6.5) name(demo1, replace)

*    But given the choice of horizontal bars, switch the aspect ratio so the x-dimension is longer than the y-dimension.
*    This example also shows that -grc1leg2- can now impose an overall scheme, overriding the original schemes
grc1leg2 `graphs', xsize(9) ysize(4) name(demo2, replace) scheme(s1rcolor)

*    -grc1leg2- can now deploy all of the -graph display- options, which are also available from its dialog
*    Here the option -margins(vlarge)- makes extra room on all four margins of the combined graph
grc1leg2 `graphs', margins(vlarge) xsize(9) ysize(4) name(demo3, replace) scheme(s1manual)

*    To see the empty dialog box
db grc1leg2

Here is the combined graph named -demo2- which has a modified aspect ratio and overrides the the graph schemes of the original graphs to impose a uniform scheme on the combined graph and all of its components.


To install or update the new version:

view net describe grc1leg2, from("http://digital.cgdev.org/doc/stata/MO/Misc")

[Nick Cox]

Here's another approach to the same underlying problem. Alphabetical order for regions is probably dopey, I would change the units of two variables to avoid scientific notation, and there may be good reason for the order gfd to klf -- but those are separate issues and easily fixed -- given a specification of a better order.

clear

input byte r_id str26 region float(period year) double(gfd shr kme klf)
1 "East Asia & Pacific"        1 1  8325.703482570614 221713507.51180354 312545535391.22266  9.884943733931932
1 "East Asia & Pacific"        2 2  9962.102881752555  291994199.0371205  374296140523.1998 10.281044165113197
2 "Europe & Central Asia"      1 1   24102.8204969368   538919571.786615 538401194443.77637 19.022858084454136
2 "Europe & Central Asia"      2 2  25799.98590965781  654494471.3396385  581745338410.1671 23.309416601936224
3 "Latin America & Caribbean"  1 1  9455.280580949593  80081604.26769644  76151826017.24394  6.093767684310448
3 "Latin America & Caribbean"  2 2   9545.11053660585 106220095.91957214  98404982310.05264  7.355575546132802
4 "Middle East & North Africa" 1 1  7373.541711250463   89946551.4761219  81922279949.52919 16.905612650025958
4 "Middle East & North Africa" 2 2 7777.9616878091565  99544773.86252138 106317425321.04172 19.484252374025836
5 "North America"              1 1  49559.27810369779           83961914       2.209272e+11  7.247645902684366
5 "North America"              2 2  53454.28768786681           98022165 270455750000.00006  7.239042277091585
6 "South Asia"                 1 1 1368.5156808676866  12190005.91249332        2.40586e+10  11.19949571592668
6 "South Asia"                 2 2 1780.9751084779448 23091459.198763825        3.49224e+10 10.671254320423737
7 "Sub-Saharan Africa"         1 1  1645.103030610854 38776587.938939884 29995171741.764538 10.925456728424516
7 "Sub-Saharan Africa"         2 2 1682.6993478548713  45598841.52158082  32372205773.37823  10.55520839362721
end
label values year fiveyr
label def fiveyr 1 "2010-2014", modify
label def fiveyr 2 "2015-2019", modify

rename (gfd shr kme klf) (y=)

reshape long y, i(region year) j(which) string

gr hbar y, over(year) over(region) by(which, xrescale note("")) scheme(s1color)  asyvars ytitle("means") xsize(9)