Re: st: number format in graph labels

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

You can create a new label for the values you want to show on the graph
/**********************************************************************/
sysuse auto,clear

label define gwt000  0 "0" 1000 "1" 2000 "2" 3000 "3" 4000 "4" 5000  
"5" ///
        6000 "6" 7000 "7" 8000 "8" 9000 "9" 10000 "10"
label values weight gwt000
twoway scatter weight trunk, ylabel(0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000,  
valuelabel) ytitle("Weight (1,000's of Pounds)")

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help -label- will show you how to save such temporary labels for  
further use. Note that you can make the label go as high as you like,  
but use only a subset of values in the -ylabel- option.

-Steve

On Aug 13, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Maarten buis wrote:


> --- Gisella Young <gisellayoung@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > It occurs to me that a (hopefully) simpler way might just be to title
> > the y-axis "Whatever (thousands)" or "Whatever ('000)" and then have
> > the labels all divided by a thousand, so what would have been 1000000
> > would just be 1000, in which case the absence of spaces doesn't
> > really matter as the smaller number of 0's is easy to see. However
> > I'm not sure if there is an easy way of doing this (in my pre-Stata
> > life I made a lot of graphs in Excel and there is an option to tick
> > to show the graph scale in 100's, 1000's, etc). I don't want to
> > actually divide my y variable by 1000 as i still want the original
> > variable to be used in plotting the chart, but just want to show the
> > variable graphically in '000's - is there a way to do this in Stata?
> This is exactly what I would do. If you think carefully about it, an
> option that removes three zeros from the y-axis labels does exactly  
> the
> same thing as dividing your y by 1000 and use that variable for the
> plot.
>
> -- Maarten
>
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