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Title

mm_plot() -- Draw plot using Stata's graph twoway command

Syntax

void mm_plot(X [, plottype, options])

real scalar _mm_plot(X [, plottype, options])

where

X: real matrix containing data (rows are observations, columns variables)

plottype: string scalar specifying type of twoway plot (see help twoway; default is "scatter")

options: string scalar specifying options to be passed on to the graph command

Description

mm_plot(X) draws a twoway plot from the contents of X using Stata's graph twoway command. The columns of X are the variables to be plotted. mm_plot() aborts with error if the graph command cannot be executed successfully.

_mm_plot() performs the same action as mm_plot() but returns the appropriate Stata return code instead of aborting with error if the graph command cannot be executed successfully.

Remarks

Examples:

. mata: mm_plot(uniform(100,2))

. mata: mm_plot(sort(uniform(10,3),3),"line")

. mata: mm_plot(uniform(100,2), "", "msymbol(Th)")

Conformability

mm_plot(X, plottype, options): X: n x k plottype: 1 x 1 options: 1 x 1 result: void

_mm_plot(X, plottype, options): X: n x k plottype: 1 x 1 options: 1 x 1 result: 1 x 1

Diagnostics

None.

Source code

mm_plot.mata

Author

Ben Jann, ETH Zurich, jann@soz.gess.ethz.ch

Also see

Online: help for graph twoway, moremata