st: RE: formatting of a %td variable in over() in graphs

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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You can always put the thing through the -string()- function beforehand,
though:

*************
sysuse auto, clear
keep in 1/10
gen day=18320+_n
form day %td
gen day2=string(day, "%td")
graph bar (mean) price, over(day2, label(angle(forty_five)))
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HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Airey, David C
Sent: Freitag, 9. Juli 2010 20:36
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: st: formatting of a %td variable in over() in graphs

.

If I do

scatter var1 var2

and var2 is formatted as %td date variable then var2 is labelled as
formatted.

If I do

graph box var1, over(var2)

or

dotplot var1, over(var2)

then var2 is not labelled as formatted.

There doesn't seem to be a way to get the %td formatted group variable to
use its formatting. One can relabel(# "text") manually, or one can use the
graph twoway command, but it seems like this should be an option to allow
the group variable formatting to be used.



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