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An Excel-using colleague has asked me how to have the x-axis of a
twoway plot go through zero (or some other number) on the y-axis.
Consider
sysuse auto
ge y = price - 5000
* x-axis below all values (default)
scatter y mpg
* line through zero; axis labelling and ticks below
scatter y mpg, yline(0) xscale(noline)
* ? how to force x-axis through zero ?
I've looked through the [G] manual, and searched the Statalist
archive, but have not yet been able to discover how to do this. (It's
not necessarily aesthetically desirable, I know, but I have been
presented with the 'challenge'.)
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Do you mean you want ticks and x-axis labels superimposed within the
data region? I'd refuse to play, regardless of whether it can be done.
Nick
[email protected]
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You want the ticks and labels moved into the inner plot region??
Seems like a bad idea, but you could write a little pre-processing
program to accumulate the necessary ticks (lines) and labels (text) in
a local. Is it worth the effort?
Austin Nichols
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The answer to Nick and Austin's opening questions is "yes" -- though I
strongly agree with their additional remarks about the general
undesirability of doing this (as my final sentence hinted).
The background: I am trying to persuade some sceptical colleagues to
change from using Excel for graphics to using Stata for graphics --
for reproducibility and audit trails, in addition to functionality and
'total control'. I have been given a series of Excel graphs as
'challenges' by these colleagues, including one with this axis
feature. This is the only thing that has beaten me so far.
Stephen
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