Re: st: graph bar, x-axis and dates

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Thu, 21/4/11, Ben Ammar wrote:
> I've got a panel dataset, where I want show the
> developement of two different groups in the course of time
> which worked fine by the following command:
> 
> graph bar (count) special general, over (date) stack
> percentage
> 
> Unfortunately, since there are more than 30 years of
> monthly data, the x-axis is filled with dates that it can't
> be read anymore. Is there a way that the graph shows only
> years, preferably in 5 year steps?

I would reformulate that as a -twoway bar- or -twoway rbar-
command.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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