Re: st: Remove day (but keep month and year) from x-axis

["MA V" <ma_v@hotmail.com>]

Thanks. That was a great help. One more question: what if I just want the 
first three letters for each month and the last two numbers for the year? 
(e.g. Jan94)
Thanks,
MA_V


> From: dwagner@stata.com (Derek Wagner, StataCorp)
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: Remove day (but keep month and year) from x-axis
> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:30:06 -0500
>
> Ma_V wrote:
>
> > I have a time series plot that I constructed using the "twoway" 
> function.
> > My question is the following: I have daily data, but I just want month 
> and
> > year (and not day) to show up in the x-axis.
> > Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> If you're not doing so already, you might want to use -twoway tsline- to
> graph your time-series data.  Then, you can use the -format- suboption
> within the -tlabel- option to format the labels on the time axis (x-axis).
> For example:
>
>         . webuse sp500
>
>         . tsset date
>
>         . twoway tsline high, tlabel(, format(%dM/CY))
>
> This will give you labels with month and year instead of day/month/year.
>
> The -format- option will also work with labels in other -twoway- commands
> if you don't want to use -twoway tsline-:
>
>         . twoway scatter high date, xlabel(, format(%dM/CY))
>
> Derek Wagner
>
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