How about this:
twoway scatter mpg price, ylabel(minmax,nogrid) ///
xlabel(minmax) yscale(nofextend) xscale(nofextend)
Scott
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> Subject: st: Graph axis labelling range
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a "range-frame" around a scatterplot (see Tufte,
> Visual Display of Quantitative Information, pp 130-131). The basic idea
> is that the axis line is drawn only for the range of the data.
>
> I've managed to create it (for the y-axis only in this example) as
> follows:
>
> . sysuse auto
>
> . graph twoway scatter mpg price || ///
> scatteri 12 -250 41 -250, c(l) msym(none) , ///
> plotregion(margin(l 0 b 0)) yscale(noline) ///
> ylab(12 41, nogrid) xscale(ra(-200 15000)) ///
> legend(off) yscal(ra(10 45))
>
> But this seems like a pretty ugly way to go (and requires some ad-hoc
> tinkering).
>
> I'd have thought that the yscale(noextend) option would get me where I
> want to go, but this command:
>
> . graph twoway scatter mpg price , yscale(noextend)
>
> draws a y-axis that runs from about 15.5 to 26.2. Not sure why that's
> happening.
>
> Is this something someone has programmed, or on which someone has a
> better approach?
>
> Thanks
> Nick Winter
>
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