Re: st: any simpler way to add text to a graph

["Data Analytics Corp." <walt@dataanalyticscorp.com>]

Hi,

It never fails - send an email asking for help on something and then 
you'll find it yourself somewhere.  I found the notick option while 
poking around in the graph manual.  So no problem with that one.  I'll 
look at graph dot for my purpose.

Thanks,

Walt

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On 4/13/2011 10:01 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> xla(, notick) is mentioned in the help for axis label options.
>
> -graph bar-, -graph hbar-, -graph dot- all by default show means for
> categorical variables.
>
> A good way to use the graphics manual is just to flick through looking
> at the pictures until you see something you want. Similarly, with
> Michael Mitchell's graphics book, which is always being "borrowed"
> from me indefinitely by people who find it excellent as a source of
> finding commands.
>
> Alternatively, http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/graphics/gph/statagraphs.html
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Data Analytics Corp.
> <walt@dataanalyticscorp.com>  wrote:
> > I created a simple graph that merely plots the means for a variable where
> > the means are based on a categorical variable.  I created the means using
> > collapse:
> >
> >     collapse ocs, by(project)
> >
> > I then added a variable to this data set as
> >
> >     gen x = 0.5
> >
> > and created the graph I want as
> >
> >     scatter ocs x, xline(0.5)
> >
> > I want to add a label next to each point, the label naming the project.  I
> > first added, as an example, text(0.49 0.45 "Project 1", place(w)) to the
> > scatter command.  That worked.  But I have 10 projects.  I would have to add
> > 10 such text commands.  This is very inefficient.  Is there a better way?
> >
> > Also, is there a way to NOT display tick marks on the x-axis since they're
> > meaningless here?
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