Re: st: Re: Axis label

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

As Oliver says, in the example the data are already sorted in the
right order. That being so,

labmask sid, values(parm)

is a shorter solution yet. (As before, -labmask- is from SJ.)

Nick

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Oliver Jones
<ojones@wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> even so Nick already gave an solution, here is an example of how I would
> have done it (before seeing Nick's solution).
>
> ************* begin example *******************
> clear
> * Create some example variable
> set obs 3
> gen str5 parm = "a"
> replace parm = "b" in 2
> replace parm = "c" in 3
> list
> gen qvs = rnormal()
>
> * Asuming the data are sorted the way you want them you can just
> * create an id variable
> gen int id = _n
>
> * Make a label out of you string variable
> levelsof parm
> tokenize `"`r(levels)'"'
> local i = 0
> while "`1'" != "" {
>        local i = `i' + 1
>        dis `i'
>        dis "`1'"
>        label define lbl_parm `i' "`1'", modify
>        macro shift
> }
>
> * attach the label to your id variable
> label values id lbl_parm
>
> list
>
> tw scatter qvs id, xlab(, valuelabel)
>
> exit
> ************* end example *******************
>
> Best
> Oliver
>
> Am 13.04.2011 11:12, schrieb Arti Rayit:
>>
>> I have a dataset which has a str5 variable 'parm' of the form 1-2, 1-3,
>> 1-4 etc
>> and I want to use this as the variable on the x axis of a twoway scatter
>> plot. I
>> have converted this to numeric:
>>
>> encode parm,gen(id) label(parm)
>> twoway (scatter qvs id), xlabel(, valuelabel)
>>
>> but the new variable has the sort order based on parm:
>>  parm   estimate          p         qvs   sid   id |
>>      |----------------------------------------------------|
>>   1. |   1-2   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     1    3 |
>>   2. |   1-3   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     2    4 |
>>   3. |   1-4   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     3    5 |
>>   4. |   1-5   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     4    6 |
>>   5. |   1-6   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     5    7 |
>>      |----------------------------------------------------|
>>   6. |   1-7   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     6    8 |
>>   7. |   1-8   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     7    9 |
>>   8. |   1-9   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     8   10 |
>>   9. |  1-10   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001     9    1 |
>>  10. |  1-11   125.5616   3.83e-29       .0001    10    2
>>
>> which means the first plotted variable is 1-10 rather than 1-2.
>>
>> How can I sort this so that the plot sequence is 1-2, 1-3 etc.
>>
>> I am using Stata 11.

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