Re: st: Label categorical axis of - graph box - with dates

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I'd want -format()- to work in that context. It's not listed as one of
the cat_axis_label_options, but I share Allan's surprise.

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Allan Reese (Cefas)
<allan.reese@cefas.co.uk> wrote:
> This ought to be obvious; apologies if it's well documented elsewhere.
>
> A dataset where the group variable is a date, stored as integer with %td format:
> - tab idate -         shows the dates as 1apr2012 etc with count for each date
> - scatter y idate -   labels the X axis with date values, though not necessarily those in the data
> - graph box y, over(idate) -
>                       labels the categories with the internal (SIF) values
> - graph box y, over(idate, label( angle(30) format(%td) ) ) -
>                       rotates the labels; format is ignored but NOT flagged as error
>
> The workround is to create a string variable containing the date strings, use that for the labels but coerce the date ordering:
>
> - g sdate=string(idate,"%td")  -
> - graph box y, over( sdate, label(angle(30)) sort(idate)) -
>
> It seems a bug that the format is honoured by scatter but not by box, and another that a format option is accepted but ignored.
>
> Allan
>
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