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Re: st: Dates in -graph bar-
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"STOLOWY, Herve" <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would try
>
> gen sYear_Quarter = string(Year_Quarter, "%tq")
>
> ... , over(sYear_Quarter)
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 12 June 2013 13:31, STOLOWY, Herve <[email protected]> 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".
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