Re: st: Strange interaction between weights and the -mlabel()-

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Vince for this information, and thanks in advance to StataCorp 
for the future documentation update.

For what it's worth, there is a workaround. You can type

. twoway scatter mpg weight [awei=price] || scatter mpg weight , mlab(make) 
msym(none) || , legend(off)

and get what I hoped to get by typing (in error)

. twoway scatter mpg weight [awei=price], mlab(make)

It might look even better with a -mlabgap()- option on the second plot.

Best wishes

Roger


At 20:45 22/11/2004, Vince Wiggins wrote:

> Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk> asks about labeling weighted marker
> symbols on a scatter plot,
>
> > [...] However, if I type
> >
> > . twoway scatter mpg weight [awei=price], mlab(make)
>
> > then -mpg- is plotted against -weight-, and the symbols are labelled
> > by -make-, but are unweighted. [...]
>
> -scatter- does not allow weights to be combined with marker labels, and I
> thought that limitation was documented. If it is, I can't find it. The
> documentation will be updated to reflect this "feature".

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