Re: st: RE: Graph axis labelling range

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

Ah, very nice.  Would take some work to translate the y- or x-var units 
into units for the margin() option.

THanks
NIck

Scott Merryman wrote:

> How about this?
>
> twoway scatter mpg price, ylabel(minmax,nogrid )   ///
>   xlabel(minmax) yscale(  nofextend  )  xscale(nofextend) /// 
>   plotregion(lcol(none) margin(5 2 10 2))
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Steichen, Thomas J.
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:51 AM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: RE: st: RE: Graph axis labelling range
> >
> > A nice cross between my proposal and Scott's is
> >
> > twoway scatter mpg price, ylabel(minmax,nogrid)  ///
> > xlabel(minmax) yscale(nofextend) xscale(nofextend) plotregion(lcol(none))
> >
> > This is clean and simple but gives the default gap.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > Thomas J. Steichen
> > steicht@rjrt.com
> > -----------------------------------
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Winter
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:34 PM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: Re: st: RE: Graph axis labelling range
> >
> > Yes, that gives a version of what I'm looking for.  I also want to be
> > able to extend the range of the axis, yet also retain the ability to
> > have the axis line only extend over a defined range.  For that, I think
> > I need an approach along the lines of what I was doing, as made more
> > elegant by Thomas Steichen.
> >
> > (That is, doing something like yscale(ra(0 50)) then means that the
> > nofextend draws the axis from 0 to 50.)
> >
> > A question for Statacorp, perhaps: is there a way to extract
> > programmatically the size of the default gap between the axis and the
> > data area, from the current scheme?
> >
> > --Nick
> >
> > Scott Merryman wrote:
> > > How about this:
> > >
> > > twoway scatter mpg price, ylabel(minmax,nogrid)  ///
> > > 	xlabel(minmax) yscale(nofextend) xscale(nofextend)
> > >
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> > > > statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Nick Winter
> > > > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 2:02 PM
> > > > To: Stata List
> > > > 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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