This is a very common need and there are several user-written solutions
for it. Ulrich Kohler mentioned my -egen- function -axis()- from
-egenmore- (although then changed his mind) and Roger Newson mentioned
his -sencode-.
A command that is I think exactly what you seek is -labmask-.
. search labmask
FAQ . How to assign the val. of a var. as the val. labels of
another var.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UCLA Academic Technology
Services
5/08 http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/labmask.htm
Example . Code frag.: Hazard ratio of baseline char. by a dichotomous
variable
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UCLA Academic Technology
Services
12/06 http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/code/display_hr.htm
SJ-8-2 gr0034 . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: Between tables and
graphs
(help labmask, seqvar if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . N.
J. Cox
Q2/08 SJ 8(2):269--289
outlines techniques for producing table-like graphs
reveals that the wonderful UCLA site contains two documents mentioning
-labmask- and also that since those documents were written I have
written up -labmask-'s application to graphs in the Stata Journal.
Regardless of whether you subscribe to the Journal you should install
-labmask- together with -seqvar- from the Stata Journal site.
The code is also in the SSC package -labutil-, but installing from the
SJ site is better.
Nick
[email protected]
Ashim Kapoor
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.
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