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| From | "STOLOWY, Herve" <stolowy@hec.fr> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Dates in -graph bar- |
| Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:16:43 +0200 |
Dear Nick: It works perfectly fine. Once again, I thank you very much. Hervé On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote: > I would try > > gen sYear_Quarter = string(Year_Quarter, "%tq") > > ... , over(sYear_Quarter) > > Nick > njcoxstata@gmail.com > > > On 12 June 2013 13:31, STOLOWY, Herve <stolowy@hec.fr> wrote: > >> I have a question very similar to the one raised in: >> >> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-04/msg00867.html >> >> I read the answer and some other threads on dates in graph >> (http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-10/msg00731.html) and do >> not find the answer for my problem. >> >> I want to make a graph with the command: >> >> graph bar Downgrade Upgrade if Crisis2 == 1, over (Year_Quarter) >> >> where Year_Quarter is formatted as %tq. I have 8 quarters involved in >> the graphs (from 2007q1 to 2008q4). >> >> This produces a graph with the number corresponding to the quarter on >> the x-axis (from 190 to 197), rather than the actual quarter (e.g. >> '190' instead of '2007q1'). >> >> How can I get the quarter to show up rather than the corresponding number? >> >> In the above mentioned thread, I read the solution. I do not >> understand why with a graph twoway, the label is by default the one I >> would like to have. With bar, it does not work by default. (But my >> graph cannot be twoway). >> >> I found the following solution: >> >> graph bar Downgrade Upgrade if Crisis2 == 1, over (Year_Quarter, >> relabel (1 "2007q1" 2 "2007q2" ... 8 "2008q4")). >> >> It works by it is painful. I was not able to use -mylabels- >> downloadable from ssc) to generate automatically the "relabel". > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/