One way would be to use the -tlabel- option, something like:
sysuse sp500, clear
tsset date, daily
twoway tsline high low , tlabel(31jan2001 31dec2001, format(%dmd) alt)
xtitle("")
If you have a lot of dates to enter, the following code picks up the
last day of the month:
sysuse sp500, clear
tsset date, daily
gen year = year(date)
levelsof year, local(years)
local day31 "Jan", "Mar", "May", "Jul", "Aug", "Oct", "Dec"
local day30 "Apr", "Jun", "Sep", "Nov"
local month = c(Mons)
foreach k of local years {
foreach l of local month {
if inlist("`l'", "`day31'") == 1 {
local months "`months'31`l'`k' "
}
if inlist("`l'", "`day30'") == 1 {
local months "`months'30`l'`k' "
}
if mod(`k', 4)==0 & "`l'" == "Feb" {
local months "`months'29`l'`k' "
}
if mod(`k', 4)==1 & "`l'" == "Feb" {
local months "`months'28`l'`k' "
}
}
}
twoway tsline high low , tlabel("`months'", format(%dmd) alt) xtitle
("")
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric G. Wruck" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2005 9:21 am
Subject: st: Axis label annoyance
> Hi there:
>
> I'm working on some overlaid graphs where the x-axis is the date.
> The date within the Stata file is always the last day of the
> month.
> However, when I go to create my twoway graph, Stata labels the
> axes
> with dates that are the first day of the month (e.g., 01 Oct 00) --
>
> dates that are not actually found on any record within the file.
> Why
> does Stata do this? I will try re-formatting the dates but it
> doesn't seem to me that I should have to do this. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
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