st: New version of -regaxis- on SSC

["Roger B. Newson" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of -regaxis- is now available for 
download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this, or 
-adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -regaxis-.

The -regaxis- package is described as below on my website, and generates 
regular linear and logarithmic axis scales for use in Stata graphs. The 
new version fixes a bug, which caused these axis scales only to span the 
set of values from observations with non-missing values for all 
variables in the input -varlist-. This is now fixed, so the axis scales 
now span the set of values from observations with non-missing values for 
ANY variable in the input -varlist-. This is especially useful if the 
user wants to produce multiple plots with different symbols for subsets 
of observations from the same variable. As in:

sysuse auto, clear
clonevar mpg0=mpg if foreign==0
clonevar mpg1=mpg if foreign==1
lab var mpg0 "Mileage (US cars)"
lab var mpg1 "Mileage (non-US cars)"
regaxis mpg0 mpg1, ltick(ylabs) cy(5)
scatter mpg0 mpg1 weight, ylab(`ylabs')

This creates a scatter plot of mileage against weight, with values of 
mileage on the Y-axis spaced regularly by 5 miles per gallon, and 
different symbols for US and non-US cars.

Best wishes

Roger


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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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package regaxis from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
      regaxis: Regular linear and logarithmic axis scales, ranges and 
tick lists

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The regaxis package contains 2 programs, named regaxis and logaxis.
      regaxis generates a regular linear axis range and tick list for a 
list of
      variables and/or numbers to be included in the axis range. 
logaxis generates
      a regular logarithmic axis range and tick list for a list of 
variables and/or
      numbers to be included in the axis range.  Both programs can 
output the
      elements of the axis range and/or tick list to be stored in local 
and/or
      global macros, which can then be used in Stata graphics commands 
as axis
      options and suboptions, such as the the range() suboption of the 
xscale() and
      yscale() options, or the xlabel() ylabel(), xtick() and ytick() 
options.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 12january2012
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      regaxis.ado
      regaxis.sthlp
      logaxis.ado
      logaxis.sthlp
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