Is your Stata up to date? The option to label outside values was added
August 22, 2003.
Try -update query-
The current files are:
. update query
(contacting http://www.stata.com)
Stata executable
folder: C:\Stata8\
name of file: wsestata.exe
currently installed: 10 Jan 2005
latest available: 10 Jan 2005
Ado-file updates
folder: C:\Stata8\ado\updates\
names of files: (various)
currently installed: 24 Feb 2005
latest available: 24 Feb 2005
Recommendation
Do nothing; all files up-to-date.
Hope this helps,
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcos Feldman
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 5:16 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: RE: id labels in box plots
>
> Dear Scott Merryman:
>
> thanks for your help but I got the message "mlabel not
> allowed" as usual. I tried it with the "auto" data and
> my data set of interest. I checked out the marker
> options in help and I couldn't find the sub-option for
> labels or anything suggesting I could label variable
> values on the box plot. It seems I should be able to
> id observations on the box plot though... any other
> suggestions? Thanks again.
>
> Marcos
>
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