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Re: st: Rotate labels of ticks in time series graphic
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Barbara Engels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Rotate labels of ticks in time series graphic
Date
Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:40:14 +0200
thanks a lot, david's version worked perfectly. thank you too for your advice considering the reader-friendliness, I am aware of that problem, but annual labels are more important to me this time. best, barbara
El 06.06.2011, a las 20:24, David Radwin escribió:
> I think you want the angle(vertical) option under -xlabel- . An example:
>
> . sysuse uslifeexp
>
> . keep if year>1994
>
> . twoway (line le year), xlabel(, angle(vertical))
>
> Vertical labels can be harder to read. An alternative for a long time annual
> time series is to label only, say, every fifth or tenth year.
>
> David
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
>> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:15 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: st: Rotate labels of ticks in time series graphic
>>
>> Check out the angle() option under -ylabel-.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> reg
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Barbara Engels <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Jun 6, 2011 1:57 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: st: Rotate labels of ticks in time series graphic
>>>
>>> Dear Statalist,
>>>
>>> I am sorry to bother you with this quite trivial questions, but I have
>> been searching without success ...
>>>
>>> I have a time series graphic with years on the x-axis ... I need the
>> years to be rotated, so that I can make ticks for every year.
>> Horizontially as they are by default, they overlap each other...
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Barbara
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