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Re: st: two way graph, x-axis label
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: two way graph, x-axis label
Date
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:42:42 +0100
Don't -encode-, -destring-.
Nick
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Nikolaos Pandis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to create a twoway line graph of var1 vs year.
>
> I had copied & pasted the dataset from excel and the year was pasted as string.
>
> I used:
>
> encode year,gen(yearno)
>
> and year is converted into a number from 1-17
>
> I would like to :
>
> twoway (line var1 yearno)
>
> but on the x-axis show the actual label of the year like 1995, 2000, 2001 etc, instead of values from 1-17.
>
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