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  <td><br><h2>stack prefab</h2></td>
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<title>Manual page for stack_prefab(PL)</title>
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<h2>EXAMPLE 1</h2>
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<pre>
   pl -prefab stack data=data10 x=1 y=2 y2=4 y3=6 y4=8 xlbl=Months \
    name="Group A" name2="Group B" name3="Group C" name4="Group D"

   data10 file:
	0	100	2	100	4	100	3	100	4
	1.5	92	4	94	7	87	6	86	5
	3	89	4	92	8	78	6	74	4
	..etc.



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<a href="prefabs.html#examples">
 How to run these examples
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<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
<tt>stack</tt> is a 
<a href="prefabs.html">
 prefab
</a>
for producing stacked bar graphs with
one to four levels of stacking.<tt> </tt>
The data must be organized such that all segments of a bar are in the same
data row.<tt> </tt>
Based on 
<a href="bars.html">
 proc bars
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 .<tt> </tt>

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<h2>PARAMETERS</h2>
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<a href="prefab_stdparms.html">
 Standard prefab parameters
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are all supported except <b>err</b>.  <b>data</b>, <b>x</b> and <b>y</b> are required.<tt> </tt>
<b>y</b> values should be numeric and will determine the height of bars.<tt> </tt>
<b>x</b> values determine bar locations; 
by default they are assumed to be categories, but thay can be continuous numeric values
if <b>xnumeric</b> is specified.<tt> </tt>

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<b>name</b> is a short description for the first level, for
inclusion in a legend.<tt> </tt>

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<b>y2</b>, <b>name2</b>, <b>color2</b>
may be specified for a second level.<tt> </tt>

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<b>y3</b>, <b>name3</b>, <b>color3</b>
may be specified for a third level.<tt> </tt>
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<b>y4</b>, <b>name4</b>, <b>color4</b>
may be specified for a fourth level.<tt> </tt>
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<b>xnumeric</b> may be specified as <tt>yes</tt> to signify that X values
are numeric and not categories.<tt> </tt>
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<b>legend</b> controls the
<a href="attributetypes.html#xy">
 location
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of the legend.  Example: <tt>"legend=1 0.5"</tt>   



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