I should say _in spirit_, as what Steve suggests is not exactly what
-mylabels- does. But the graphs will look the same.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 13 August 2008 17:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: number format in graph labels
This is precisely what -mylabels- from SSC can do for you (see my
earlier suggestion, sent at about the same time as this). Doing it from
first principles is always instructive, however.
Nick
[email protected]
Steven Samuels
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)")
/**********************************************************************/
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.
On Aug 13, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Maarten buis wrote:
> --- Gisella Young <[email protected]> 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.
>
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