Stata module to customize the overall look of graphs
grstyle allows you to customize the overall look of graphs from within a
do-file without having to fiddle around with external scheme files. The
advantage of grstyle over manually editing a scheme file is that everything
needed to reproduce your graphs can be included in a single do-file.
Furthermore, grstyle provides a number of useful features such as assigning
color palettes or setting absolute sizes.
Online documentation of grstyle can be found at
repec.sowi.unibe.ch/stata/grstyle.
To install the grstyle package from the SSC Archive, type
. ssc install grstyle, replace
in Stata. Stata version 9.2 or newer is required. Some features of grstyle
rely on utilities provided by the palettes package. To install this package,
type
. ssc install palettes, replace
Furthermore, in Stata 14.2 or newer, also the colrspace package is required; type
. ssc install colrspace, replace
Installation from GitHub:
. net install grstyle, replace from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benjann/grstyle/master/)
Main changes:
15sep2020:
- grstyle returned error if scheme _GRSTYLE_ was already active although grstyle
was not running (for example, because scheme _GRSTYLE_ has been manually
selected in the Graph preferences dialog); grtyle now resets the default
scheme to s2color in such a case, unless the user hits Break
14may2020
- minor changes to helpfile due to new colorpalette version
17apr2020
- installation files added to GitHub distribution
30jan2019
- command -grstyle set color- now calls command -colorpalette9- instead of
-colorpalette- if used in a Stata version older than 14.2
12apr2018
- command -grstyle set plain- now has options -box- and -minor-
- commands -grstyle set mesh- and -grstyle set imesh- no longer print a minor
grid by default, instead they now have a -minor- option
- command -grstyle set color- now supports selecting colors from multiple palettes
- spaces are now allowed between values and units in size specifications and -in-
can now also be specified as -inch- (or -inc-); this concerns -gstyle set
graphsize-, -grstyle set size-, -grstyle set symbolsize-, -grstyle set
linewidth-, and -grstyle set margin-
- the default element set by -grstyle set intensity-, -grstyle set symbol-,
-grstyle set lpattern-, -grstyle set symbolsize-, and -grstyle set linewidth-
is now -p- if a single value is provided and -p#- if more than one value
is provided or option plots() is specified
14feb2018
- command -grstyle set nogrid- has been added
- command -grstyle set noextend- has been added
- command -grstyle set plain- now has new options -nogrid- and -noextend-
- -grstyle set margins- now reorders the provided numbers when writing a
scheme entry (because Stata interprets margins scheme entries as
"left right top bottom" instead of the usual "left right bottom top")
22dec2017
- new command grstyle set
- new command grstyle type
- command gstyle refresh discarded; settings are now refreshed automatically
18oct2017
- some minor bug fixes and small improvements
15oct2017
- grstyle released on SSC