I have suggested this as a possibility privately
to StataCorp, although I have two moods about it.
In either a graph or a table, I find repeated
percent symbols to be a constant element that
should be factored out, as it were, and used
just once, for example in a row or column heading or
in an axis title.
However, it is arguable whether StataCorp
should play arbiter of elegance (for which
the historical precedents are not attractive)
whenever enough users really want something
(although vibratory patterns in graphs are
banned until the end of time).
However, I don't know exactly what Jeph means here by
conversion to string. You can use labels on
the fly, as in
... , yla(0 "0%" 10 "10%") ...
the only problem being the tedium of typing.
I'll add -prefix()- and -postfix()- options to
my -mylabels- if I sense enough interest.
Nick
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Jeph Herrin
> I often work with percentages, and find it somewhat annoying that
> I have to convert numbers to strings to get them to show up with
> a %-sign. This is particularly a nusiance with graphs, where
> a histogram
> that might naturally use %s on the y-axis cannot be persuaded
> to do so without generating the frequencies first, relabeling them
> as strings with %s, and then making a two-plot. Is there a trick that
> I don't know about? Is there a reason that Stata avoids, eg,
> -format %6.1p-?
> Seems like it would be a trivial modification at some level.
>
> BTW, I use Stata 9, in case it matters.
>
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