help sliceplot
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Title

    sliceplot -- time series or other plot in slices


Syntax

        sliceplot plottype yvarlist xvar [if] [in] [, options]

        where plottype is a twoway plottype.

    options                        Description
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    Slicing options
      at()                         values marking ends of slices
      unequal                      slices may use unequal scales
      length()                     maximum length of slices
      slices()                     number of slices

    Standard graph options
      combine()                    control graph combine
      twoway_options               affect other features of graph

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Description

    sliceplot produces a time series or other plot divided into a series of
    slices and then combined. The horizontal variable may be any numeric
    variable, but the program is motivated by the case of time series plots
    that would benefit from a short and wide scale.


Options

        +-----------------+
    ----+ Slicing options +--------------------------------------------------

    at() specifies cut points for the ends of each slice as values of the
        x-axis variable.  Values outside the range of the data will be
        ignored with a warning.

    unequal applies with at(). It specifies that unequal scales should be
        used on slices of different length.  The default is to use
        (approximately) the same scale. A common application is to show more
        interesting values at a greater magnification than others.

    slices() specifies the number of slices.

    length() specifies the maximum length of each slice in units of the
        x-axis variable. The default is 100.

        +------------------------+
    ----+ Standard graph options +-------------------------------------------

    combine() specifies options of graph combine. The defaults are
        imargin(zero) cols(1).

    twoway_options() are options of graph twoway controlling other features
        of the graph.


Examples

    . sliceplot line sunspots year, slices(4)

    . sliceplot line sunspots year, at(1800 1900 1950 2003) unequal

    . sliceplot rarea sunspots mean year, at(1800 1900 1950 2003) unequal


Author

    Nicholas J. Cox, Durham University
    n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk


Also see

    Manual:  [G] twoway, [G] graph combine

    Online:  twoway, graph combine