Ashim Kapoor asked
> > I have a question. My dataset is like this.
> >
> > Matchscore order ymonth
> > 200 1 1990m1
> > 280 2 1990m1
> > 290 3 1995m7
> > 300 4 2000m3
> > 251 5 2000m4
> >
> > This is just a small part of the dataset, but it kind of gives the
> > message that ymonths are not evenly spaced and can be repeated ( this
> > is the reason I would not graph this by ymonth). So I want to graph
> > this by order but I want the corresponding values of ymonth displayed.
> >
> > I want to do something like : -
> > twoway ( line matchscore order ) , xlabel ( using ymonth in place of
> > order for the xlabel )
> >
> > There is a clumsy way of pulling out the order values and ymonth
> > values and making a numlist but I was hoping there is something better
> > than this because I have to automate this process.
And I answered:
> I would use the -axis()- function of -egenmore-:
>
> . egen newvar = axis(order), label(ymonth)
> . graph tw line matchscore axis, xlab(, valuelabel)
>
> Note: egenmore is user written. Install it with
>
> . ssc install egenmore
This should be only used if ymonth is either a string variable or a
labeled numeric variable. It seems that Ashim's ymonth variable is an
elapsed time variable. In this case you should use Roger's approach.
Uli
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