Your call is the wrong way round. You want (e.g.)
the text "25" at 0.25. Stata's ignoring your label
rules as irrelevant to the data you have. Start with
mylabels 0(25)100, myscale(@/100) local(label100)
Think "my graph labels that I want are 0(25)100, but
my data scale is that of the labels divided by 100".
I invented this beast, but I make the same mistake
too some fraction of the time.
Nick
[email protected]
Clive Nicholas
> Nick Winter will forgive me if I don't report back on his
> solution just
> yet, for I'm having problems implementing Nick Cox's
> -mylabels- solution.
>
> . mylabels 0(.25)1, myscale(100 * @) local(label100)
> 0 "0" 25 ".25" 50 ".5" 75 ".75" 100 "1"
>
> . myticks 0(.25)1, myscale(100 * @) local(ticks100)
> 0 25 50 75 100
>
> . twoway line beconch belabch beldmch quarter, xtitle("") ylabel
> (`label100', angle(0)) xlabel(1 "Q1" 2 "Q2" 3 "Q3" 4 "Q4")
> scheme(s1mono)
> ymtic(`ticks100')
>
> The -be*- variables are normalized (0-1) continuous
> variables; -quarter-
> does what it says on the tin. I'm not allowed to show you the
> resulting
> graph, but I can tell you that:
>
> (1) I get a single flatline along the bottom of the graph
> when I should be
> seeing large zig-zag patterns; and
>
> (2) the labels don't display in any case: I still get (0 .25 .5 .75 1)
> instead of (0 25 50 75 100).
>
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