This was brought up in May 2005 by David Airey <[email protected]>
(http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-05/msg00093.html)
Included in this thread was a reply by Vince Wiggins <[email protected]>
(http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2005-05/msg00143.html)
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Ruebeck
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Axis's limits when one var has missing when other is max
>
> For what it's worth, here's a little gripe about -graph-. I wish that
> Stata determined the extent of the axes by the points that will be
> plotted, rather than conditioning on the maxima and minima of the two
> variables. It's a tiny complaint, but I post for two reasons:
>
> - Other users may be puzzled by this feature.
>
> - The response Stata Technical Support gave me was that "it's just the
> way Stata graph commands were written."
>
> Maybe there are arguments in favor of the current functionality, and
> maybe there's a "change is bad" argument, but it's easy to increase the
> extent of an axis by other means. It also seems as if it would simple
> to change Stata's code to implement the functionality I'm looking for,
> although I could be very wrong about that.
>
> Here's an illustration of the issue.
>
> input x y
> 2 4
> 1 15
> 100 .
> 4 20
> end
> scatter y x // The x-axis maximum is 100
> more
> scatter y x if y<. & x<. // The x-axis maximum is 4 (preferred)
>
> Chris
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