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At the moment it is not possible to turn the legend off.
I suggest to redo the if "legend'" and add:
if "`legend'" == "off" {
local legend legend(off)
}

it is an attempt to create a raw spider plot - see #6

If I am not mistaken, categories need to be formatted as strings. In my use case it would be better if a factor variable can be used because the order of the values has a meaning that should be preserved.

At the moment graph sizes and aspect ratio are fixed at 1. The legend is set at position 6.
In my use case, to present the graphs using Powerpoint, I would like to use the widescreen opportunity - thus x-size is 2,5x of the y-size.
I guess it is necessary that the spider graph plot region itself is quadratic - so the setting itself is necessary, or? But would there be an opportunity to place the legend at position 3, 4 or 5 to use the possible width of a presentation?

I would like to create spider plot with scheme neon. However the spike label color seems to be hard-coded to black and is therefore not visible.

Suggestion: add slabcolor option to be able to set spike label color.

Definition: SLABColor(string)
Under label section in ado: if "`slabcolor'" == "" local slabcolor "black"
And in line command: mlabcolor(`slabcolor')

I would really appreciate it!

Dear Asjad,

First of all. Thank you so much for creating this package. I am constantly using spider plots but always found Stata's radar plot unattractive.

I am writing to you because I just tried your package for the first time and when I use the option Smooth I always get an error message saying "variable _m not found"

This only appears when running smooth.

Hope you can help ( :

Thanks in advance!

First: thanks for your effort!
It would be nice if the variables that define the cat var could be kept in the order of their appearance in the dataset, or some other ordering variable. At present the categories of the cat var get displayed in alphabetical order around the web. A workaround to add eg a numerical prefix as in 1-germany 2-france 3-england and so on works until you get to 10 - we all know the 1 10 11 12 2 3 4 5 thing ...
Cheers

In line 320 a `name' is missing - defined names are not passed through

Is there currently a way to update the labels in the legend, to make them more readable than just the variable names, e.g. index_EU, index_NA, etc. from the example? I tried to use the legend(label()) option from twoway but it said it was not allowed. Thanks!

Is it possible to add export as option to export to any format like pdf, jpeg, png etc

Dear Asjad, again a really great graphic package to use for data visualization!

Note that the plot published as the Palette example:
spider index*, over(policy) ra(10 80) cuts(8) smooth(0.1) palette(CET C1) lw(0.4) ms(0.6) alpha(2)
on your main page is not correct. It should be like: