I think Martin is correct. So, you have to knit the thing yourself.
The easiest trick I can think of is that you can use a format to put
commas in the places where Gisella wants spaces, and then just
substitute accordingly.
Here is a demonstration program:
*! 1.0.0 NJC Statalist 12 Aug 2008
program spacedoutnumbers
version 8
numlist "`0'", int
local inlist `r(numlist)'
/// 42 is just an integer that should be big enough
foreach in of local inlist {
local out : di %42.0fc `in'
local out = trim("`out'")
local out : subinstr local out "," " ", all
local outlist `outlist' `in' "`out'"
}
di `"`outlist'"'
c_local mylab `outlist'
end
If you type an integer numlist at this program, it emits a local in the
calling program's space called mylab that contains all the information
you want for an axis label option.
It also displays the same stuff so that you can see that you have what
you want.
Thus suppose you want numbers 0 (100000) 1000000 spaced out in this way:
. sysuse auto
. spacedoutnumbers 0(100000)1000000
0 "0" 100000 "100 000" 200000 "200 000" 300000 "300 000" 400000 "400
000" 50000
> 0 "500 000" 600000 "600 000" 700000 "700 000" 800000 "800 000" 900000
"900 00
> 0" 1000000 "1 000 000"
. scatter mpg weight, yla(`mylab', ang(h))
This doesn't cope with non-integers. My guess is that Gisella would be
most unlikely to want non-integers on the same graph. You may say what
about logarithmic scales, but if Gisella's public has difficulty with
large integers, I doubt that logarithmic scales are in mind.
But you could add non-integers as further arguments to the axis label
option.
Nick
[email protected]
Martin Weiss
Well, any criticism connected with the labels would indirectly be
aimed at overall -format-ing in Stata. If you
*********
sysuse auto, clear
replace price=10000*price
twoway (scatter headroom price), xlabel(, format(%15.2fc))
*********
there are no exponents in the resulting graph. I do not think that
gaps instead of commas to seperate thousands are possible with -format-.
Quoting Gisella Young <[email protected]>:
> I am trying to change the format of the labels (numbers) of a graph.
> At the moment the numbers appear as e.g. 1000000 and to make it
> clearer I would like them to appear as e.g. 1 000 000. I also don't
> want to use exponents as I need to graphs to be easily accessible
> for a non-technical audience. I haven't found a way to do this in
> any FAQ or help file. I have tried options in the formatting of the
> labels such as ylabel(, format(%9,0g) ) but without success. Any
> suggestions would be most welcome.
>
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