Yes. You do need to study the help carefully. The y axis is the response
axis, here horizontal. Your problematic labels are on the other axis,
called categorical by Stata.
Here is an analogue of your problem with the auto data:
sysuse auto, clear
graph dot (asis) mpg in 1/50, over(make, label(labsize(*0.45)))
Nick
[email protected]
Brent Fulton
Thanks, Friedrich, I didn't see the -over- option originally. This
worked,
but the state abbreviation labels on the y-axis are too large. I've
tried
ylabel and mlabel but both give errors (see below). Do you have any
recommendations here?
graph dot men women children, over(state) ylabel(labsize(vsmall))
error: invalid label specifier, : labsize(vsmall):
graph dot men women children, over(state) mlabel(labsize(vsmall))
error: option mlabel() not allowed
Friedrich Huebler
See -help graph dot-.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Brent Fulton <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I would like to plot 4 points for each of the 50 states, where a state
will
> be labeled with its two-letter abbreviation. I would like to orient
the
> graph so the states are on the vertical axis and the points are
plotted on
> the horizontal axis. (I prefer to just plot points, not bars, because
the
> graph gets too busy.)
>
> I would appreciate your advice on how to do this.
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